In 2018, the University of Kansas in the United States and Morrenbeck in Belgium held a concert called "What you wearing?" "The exhibition.
The exhibition is about the clothes worn by 18 women when they were sexually assaulted.
Contrary to what many people have speculated, the vast majority of these clothes are not exposed, and can even be said to be conservative.
T-shirts, over-the-knee skirts, sportswear... And workwear.
As well as children's clothing.
Yes, children's clothing.
"We also received a children's shirt with a pony printed on it, which looked heart-wrenching."
The purpose of this exhibition is to remind people that what matters is not what these innocent victims wore at the time, whether they were exposed or not, or whether they did not wear makeup, whether they behaved frivolously or not.
None of this is a reason for them to be violated and harmed.
Ironically, in the present, victims, rather than rapists, are often the object of criticism.
"Dress like this to the company today, and be asked if you are not afraid of being raped?"
When rape occurs, the first to explode is always the female victim:
"18-year-old girl cremated after rape"
"A certain girl was lured and raped by a neighbor for two years"...
As soon as the news came out, the screen was full of such evocative words as "girl" and "girl", followed by always a photo of a woman, and it was difficult to see a photo of a rapist, which was also marked with a code.
We are still making these mistakes, and as early as the 1980s, a movie had already given the answer to these questions.
"Raiding Pear Blossom"
Based on true events, the film was released in the United States in 1988 and was the first film in Hollywood history to directly depict the crime of sexual assault.
Directed by Jonathan Kaplan and starring Judy Foster, the film won the 61st Academy Awards for Best Actress with a Douban score of 7.9.
The opening of the film is very attractive.
In fixed long shots, a bar stands under the bridge, and the credits appear, and the picture ranges from day to night.
Late at night, the calm is shattered by the appearance of a man on the screen, and he stumbles into the phone booth.
We know from his intermittent statements that there had just been a gang rape at this bar, where three or four men gang-raped a woman.
Then, a disheveled woman rushed out, shouted on the side of the road, and stopped the car for help.
She is the heroine of the film, Sarah.
This scene is very impactful for the audience, and there is a feeling of earth-shattering thunder. The director seems to be telling the audience that rape occurs without warning, and every one of us may suffer from such inhuman violence and aggression.
Then, there's the hospital scene.
We watched as Sarah was scrutinized, examined, photographed.
"What contraception do you usually use?"
"When was the last menstrual event?"
"When was the intercourse before the accident?"
"Have you ever had an STD?"
……
Procedural, cold, routine.
But fortunately, whether it is a policeman, a doctor, a counselor, or a lawyer in the film, all of them are women.
However, even in many places today, when our sexual assault victims go to the police station to report to the police, it is often a group of male police officers who interrogate them over and over again about what position they used when they were raped, whether they wore a condom, how many times they did it, whether they used their fingers or their genitals, and the process was described in detail.
Often this process is repeated many times, and each repetition is a great psychological abuse and harm to the victim.
In the 2019 American drama "Unbelievable", there are two rape cases that are separated by three years in between.
In 2008, Mary was raped and interrogated by male agents after calling the police.
In 2011, after a woman was violated, detective Karen arrived at the scene, first calmed the victim's emotions, then took her to the private car, asked for her consent, and began to carefully inquire about the details of the case...
All of this is a reminder to rapidly increase the number of female police officers and doctors, to train the police to do their best to reduce the secondary harm to the victims.
In "Raiding Pear Blossom", we find that Sarah is relatively calm and strong, she is quite cooperative with the questions and requests made by the doctor and police lawyer, and every step is done very well.
These include reporting crimes, doing checks, returning to bars to identify offenders, etc.
The last step, which looks simple, is actually very difficult.
When you are controlled, violated, and have a hard time escaping, this time let you immediately go back to that place and look at that person, which is a very scary thing for the victim.
But Sarah did, and did a great job.
Throughout the process, Sarah's voice is hoarse, her body has only mechanical reactions, and her eyes are sluggish, and these physiological manifestations all convey a kind of sadness and heart like ashes after experiencing a huge trauma, and we are immediately brought into that helplessness.
Until this time, sarah's image in front of the audience was completely the image of an innocent victim.
And then, the film begins to gradually challenge the audience's moral code.
As the film progresses, we learn that Sarah is not a well-behaved woman, she wears heavy makeup, behaves frivolously, flirts with men, drinks heavily, smokes marijuana, and even has the words "sexy lady" written on the license plate.
To put it bluntly, Sarah was not a "perfect victim."
Even on the night of the rape, she tried to show off her style, kissed the rapist, drank a lot of wine with them, bumped drugs, and played with the marbles.
At this time, many people have to say, doesn't this woman deserve it? Isn't it self-inflicted?
Yes, a lot of people at the time thought so.
So when Sarah was gang-raped, there was a group of people clapping their hands and applauding, because they didn't think it was a rape at all, but just a "show".
In the context of such public opinion, the men who gang-raped were finally sentenced to only two years in prison, and the crime was not rape, but violence and injury.
That is to say, as long as they behave well, they can get out of prison in nine months and be happy.
And Sarah?
She broke up with her boyfriend and called her mother to seek comfort, but she was asked several times by her mother if she had come to ask for money, and she was also regarded as a prostitute who did her best...
Sarah shaved her hair, never to approach any man again, and spent the whole day in her own little room.
When she had an emotional breakdown, she rushed to the home of the lawyer Catherine and asked her if it was because she was not a college student and did not come from a noble birth, so she finally got this result.
If she had behaved more gracefully, behaved a little more appropriately, and had her background been tougher, would the consequences have been different?
As Catherine watched as the skinny girl in front of her withered rapidly in a short period of time, she, as a woman, began to question her previous decisions.
After seeing Sarah drive into the hospital after hitting a man who laughed at her, Catherine decided to prosecute the bystanders who were clapping in the bar at the time.
Because they were not innocent, they contributed to the rape.
In the confusion of everyone, Sarah and Catherine truly realized "Girls Help Girls", and the two encouraged and supported each other until they won the final victory.
I remember in court, the defense lawyer asked Sarah if she had expressed her reluctance when she was raped, whether she had said words like "go away" and "stop."
Sarah said no, she kept saying "NO" .
When the defense lawyer tried to argue that "acquiescence without refusal", "a woman saying that does not mean disagreement", etc., Catherine gave the answer: "No means no."
It is not the meaning of no, it is the meaning of refusal, no, no.
There is nothing to indulge, it is simply not allowed, do not agree.
"Raiding Pear Blossom" almost gives a textbook answer to this point.
Yes, women are provocative, revealingly dressed, or frivolous, as long as women say "no", that is not OK. Even during sex, as long as the woman does not want to, it is rape.
That is why there is the term "marital rape".
Any sexual act that is forcibly committed against the will of a woman is rape.
Any act that directly contributes to rape is also a crime. You can do nothing, but you must not coax, encourage and stir, or you will be punished by the law.
Beginning in the 1960s and 1970s, europe and the United States rose to the climax of the second feminist movement. Through the unremitting efforts of feminists, women's rights and interests have been greatly protected, but there was still a problem of sexism in the social concept at that time, and women were still "others" who were "stared at".
The value of "Stormy Pear Blossom" lies in the fact that it challenges the traditional concept of women through the image of Sarah, and conveys advanced and correct feminist concepts.
You know, this movie was released in the eighties of the last century, and our current society has not been able to do that. Decades on, have we really improved?
In addition to the advanced theme of "Storm Ewha", Judy's acting skills also support the entire movie.
In the film, she uses her eyes, body movements, facial muscles and other details to interpret the characters.
Sarah's eyes were sluggish after being raped, and when she slowly reacted to the back, she began to blink more frequently.
When the police ask her to identify the culprit, Sarah first subconsciously shows the escape from the painful memory, tightens her eyebrows, and then makes up her mind to follow the police into the bar.
When injustice is met, Sarah first looks of disbelief, then anger, and then pain. This kind of subtle performance is very layered, and it is also a very test of acting skills.
There are many more nuanced interpretations like this in the film.
What Judy lets us see is a real person with flesh and blood, and only when the character of Sarah stands, can the deep theme of the film come out and the work stand up.
In addition to Sarah, Judy has created many unforgettable and memorable classic roles in her acting career of more than four decades.
Judy Foster is a talented young girl in Hollywood.
As an actress, she won two Oscars for Best Actress (the second time for The Silence of the Lambs) and two nominations for Best Supporting Actress.
From the teenage genius textbookly performing the young prostitute Iris in "Taxi Driver" to starring sarah, a controversial girl in "Raging Pear Blossom";
From almost perfectly starring Detective Clarice in "The Silence of the Lambs" to the crazy girl Nell in "Daughter of the Earth").
After Judy herself became a mother of two children, she began to portray one "strong mother" after another in the film, such as Anna in Anna and the King, Meg Atman, a single mother in Thriller Space, and Keller Pratt in Air Crisis.
In 1991, Judy made her directorial debut, My Genius Baby, which continued to examine multiple issues of human nature, family, and society through a female perspective.
Whether in acting or directing, Judy pays great attention to details and strives to impress the audience with reality, which is especially evident in "Stormy Pear Blossom".
But in addition, "Raiding Pear Blossom" is not without its shortcomings.
Its biggest flaw is in Catherine, who as a lawyer is too symbolic, like a tool person, with almost no emotions and character arcs.
In the previous "Carnival" starring Wen Qi's sister, the lawyer played by Shi Ke also had this problem.
These two women, both too great and honest, are too righteous and kind, resulting in the credibility of the film is not very high, which makes the success of the ending seem too much like a fantasy.
This is also a point to pay attention to when we shoot films with female themes in the future, that is, growth and change should not only exist in the protagonist, but also in supporting roles, otherwise this feminism is not complete.
Overall, "Raging Pear Blossom" is a very good work, and even today it is difficult to surpass. This transcendence includes not only the technical aspects of cinema, but also the concept of feminism.
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