One of the striking features of the New Wave film movement is its iconoclasm, what is tradition? The narrative is based on the mainstream, the editing is based on Hollywood, the structure is conservative, and so on. For these long-standing fields that have begun to stagnate, the New Wave has basically overthrown them one by one, which is the charm of the New Wave film movement, and after the narrative of the New Wave has chosen to take the wrong path, some narrative methods that did not exist have been born. During this period, the theme and subject of the narrative are silently changing.
The film "Female Prisoner 701 - Scorpion" recommended to you today is a film of the Japanese New Wave period, the narrative subject of this film is women, and the narrative theme is against men. The heroine is in love but is deceived by her police boyfriend, which then becomes a tool for his promotion, and in the end, the heroine chooses to assassinate her boyfriend, and is thrown into a women's prison after failure. Bullying is everywhere in prison, and the heroine who wants to escape from prison several times finally succeeds, and outside the prison, the heroine turns into an avenger and slashes everyone who has hurt herself.
"Female Prisoner 701 - Scorpion" was originally an unremarkable movie, but it was sought after by some people because of the film's very strong cinematography style and eclectic subject matter. The cinematography style in the film is more stage play, which ensures that every scene in this film looks very cool, at least for the general film, the style of this film is torn, because of the influence of modeling and scenery, the characters in this film show the audience a kind of splendor that is free from the movie, therefore, the characters are very charming.
As for the theme, the theme of this film is revenge, this revenge is the revenge initiated by women towards men, and this is also one of the characteristics of this film, in the past revenge, most of the women are not the main characters, more between men, but the revenge of this film abandons this tradition, boldly starts from the perspective of women, and takes revenge with women as the main body, which is also one of the characteristics of this film.
And some of the settings shown in the process of revenge add some pleasure to women. For example, the rape scene in the prison, if this is a group of men facing several weak women, then it will not attract so much attention, but on the contrary, the protagonists of this film are a group of women, and the female prisoners who were originally in a disadvantaged position When they changed their identities and began to humiliate the few prison guards, this setting suddenly became the only choice to stimulate the audience's attention.
Later, in order to create a strong female character, the film set up the ambiguous impulse between the protagonist and the female prisoner who was in the same room as him, which is also an eye-catching approach in this film, but without exception, this approach is basically carried out in line with the theme.
In addition, in the last part of the film, when the heroine stabbed her ex-boyfriend, she used a short knife to stab directly, this action has a certain hint of meaning, the original initiator of this action was more male, but at this time, the initiator of this action was female, and in the end, the male fell in a pool of blood after the action initiated by the female. This also implies that the theme of this film is that women use men to complete revenge. Therefore, it is a very interesting movie.
Of course, in addition, this film follows the cult style of the 80s of the last century, whether it is the setting of the story, or the construction of the scene and some of the plots, these actually give a model for later cult films, we can see from this film that movies such as the more classic cult movies "King Li" and "Kill Bill" are borrowed, which is also another meaning of this film.
But in addition to these meanings, the female dominance advocated by this film cannot actually be used as a possibility of feminism. Because this film has a common drawback with all women's films, that is, talking about women from an anti-male perspective, which should not be feminist in itself.
True feminism is to look at the world from the perspective of women, so as to reconstruct a new social concept and the rules of social operation, and the feminism presented in this film and later and even contemporary feminism are more of their own isms, but only stay in the stage of opposition to masculinism. This is actually a very low-level stage.
Because if you don't have your own opinions, then all the things you do are in vain, just like the black people in the United States often organize marches and so on, but these marches do no harm to the deconstruction of American society, at most they are part of the form of the demonstration, why is this happening, because black people do not have their own opinions, they do not have their own series of supporting organizational structures as the basis for their own behavior. As a result, although the parades are frequent, they are not organized and do not have their own program of action, and more of the parades are just a kind of show, which has no meaning for the real society.
The same is true of feminism, real feminism has to come up with its own solution, if you want to subvert a male-dominated society, you must come up with a new plan that is feasible to dominate the world, instead of just destroying the old plan, this is not real feminism, but a derivative of Dadaism, destruction is freedom, but what happens after destruction, no one mentions this, therefore, for this film, there is form, but it is only form, and in the following decades, In fact, it's all formality.
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