How hard is it for a woman to be honest about her sexual desires?
A female friend said she had been in a "sexless marriage" for four years. Get used to it.
While another female friend and Akan complained:
After marriage, her stomach is no longer her own.
She is now forced to have a child by her own parents and the man's parents.
Such a thing, in the Zhihu and other social media search, there are really quite a lot.
When a woman reaches the marriageable/fertile age, sex is no longer important and childbearing seems to have become a "vocation".
I remember that a hundred years ago, Yuan Shikai's government said: Women cannot participate in politics, and women should take childbirth as their only vocation.
And after 100 years, A kan can often brush a blogger in douyin repeatedly saying:
"The greatest value of a woman in marriage now is the value of procreation."
"Most of those who cannot have children have been abandoned."
Ah watching this moment suddenly misses a movie -
George Miller's Super Cult Road Movie:
[Mad Max 4: Fury Road].
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In this movie, there is a group of women who are forced to act as fertility machines.
But in the end, they succeeded in their rebellion! And turn the entire patriarchal world upside down!
Let's start with the movies.
It combines the ferocity of Westerns, the mania of road movies, the evil nature of cult films, and the burning emotions of action chase movies.
Five years on, Ah Kan still hasn't waited for the second divine work that can be compared to [Mad Max 4].
I remember that after watching the movie that year, Ah Kan and his friends all brushed together to kneel.
What a whimsical brain hole! How crazy to become a cool demon! What a burst of naked passion!!!
Language pales in front of this film.
A team with its own rock live stage, a fire-breathing bass, a spiked hedgehog car;
Large chariots with amazing horsepower, "blood bags" tied in front of the front of the car, dead soldiers hanging on long poles to raid...
The world is a combination of [Iron Man] B-grade flavours of machines and rust, and the yellow sand and storm of the post-apocalyptic steampunk aesthetic.
In the future world, nuclear wars caused by water scarcity have destroyed human civilization. Humanity returns to an era of scarce resources and mutual killing.
The film's main villain, Undead Joe, built a powerful armed kingdom in the valley by controlling water resources.
The male protagonist Max, as the apocalyptic Ranger, drifts from the old trilogy of the 1970s and 1980s into this new chapter of the early 20th century.
From the beginning, he was captured as a slave and a "blood bag" (blood supply to the warriors) to the armed kingdom.
As a result, he was deeply involved in the escape of the "fertile person" afterwards.
The look and feel is quite wonderful-
Who would have thought? Such a male action movie, its real protagonists, but a group of "girl scouts".
Like the future Gilead nation in The Handmaid's Tale, women are deprived of their property and work rights.
They are no longer human beings, but reproductive machines managed and deployed by the state.
In the wasteland world of [Mad Max 4], women's fertility has also become one of the plundered resources of the end times.
The ugly-looking, abstolent dictator does not die Joe, but has 5 supermodel wives and concubines of unparalleled beauty.
The beginning of the film that really makes this film interesting —
It was the immortal old Joe who found that his 5 wives and concubines had been abducted by his female god of war and hurried to the land of the Golden House.
But I found that the ground and walls there were impressively painted:
"We are not property", "We can't make our children warlords", "Who killed the world?" ”
Cool.
This feeling continues until the end of the movie.
The girls cut off their chastity belts and embarked on the road of escape, fearless and indomitable.
In the end, they turned back halfway, met the Buddha and killed the Buddha, and gave back the descendants of women a freedom.
The heroine of this film, Friosa (Charlize Theron), I prefer to call her another name, more image: Furious Ji.
Shorter than a man," with a black forehead, muscular muscles, not much to say, strong and strong, and a very leaderly temperament.
Furious Ji, who was taken from her hometown since childhood, crawled among the piles of men to the top of power.
Finally, she had the opportunity to lead the girls who were fertility machines together to escape from the kingdom ruled by the immortal Joe.
Even the "fertile" girls who do not have much force value are independent and brave, not vases.
The wife of the "favorite" of the immortal Joe can give up her life to "block the gun" for everyone in the rain of bullets;
In the reconnaissance work behind the car, there were girls rushing to do it, and incidentally "anti-brainwashing" a war boy;
When the male protagonist Max first met, he did not fight and did not know each other, everyone united and cooperated, and even almost subdued the male protagonist.
Most of the audience was shocked by this group of girls
In the later period, after the "Girl Scout Army" led by Furious Ji failed to find the "oasis" in their hearts, they encountered the matriarchal tribe again.
Although they are no longer young, this group of old women are brave and good at fighting, and can fight and sacrifice.
They also guard the green seeds that represent the hope of the wasteland world.
Killing back the base of the undead Joe is only a decision, but behind it is the courage, determination and pursuit of this group of female characters.
When the old woman with all her white hair was finally cut off from her neck and was still looking for her green seed—
Who can't help but be moved by this intergenerational female camaraderie in the film?
They exchanged their sacrifices for a new generation of women in the base.
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It's no exaggeration to say that both men and women love [Mad Max 4].
Because it proves that "straight male action movies" can also break down deep-rooted gender stereotypes and shoot the tenderness and strength of female warriors.
Moreover, women can escape the fate of reproductive machines.
Among domestic films, there are also films that care about the fate of women.
Ah Kan thought of Yao Chen as the lead actor and producer of "Send Me to Qingyun".
The heroine Sheng Nan (Yao Chen), although she has not faced the fate of being forced to give birth, has another sorrow that belongs to women.
She developed ovarian cancer.
The ovaries are female gonads, and the monthly ovulation brings life to fertilization when it encounters sperm.
However, ovarian cancer is also second only to cervical cancer and uterine cancer in women, and at least 25,000 women die from this disease every year in China.
In the year of li, a lonely, but unique ovarian cancer quietly came, life entered the countdown, and there was no money to do surgery.
What's even more tragic is that she hadn't had sex for years before that.
Once the surgery is complete, it is possible that you will never experience desire and orgasm again.
A woman, because of a cancer, is forced to begin to face the lust and truth in her life.
In this sense, [Send me to Qingyun] cares about the other side of women's reality -
Sexual repression.
There is a plot in the movie that has always been highly regarded.
When the heroine Sheng Nan and her friend Si Mao completed a surging bed, Sheng Nan did not stop.
The back-to-back positions of the two allowed Sheng Nan to masturbate with his hands to reach orgasm.
In fact, the title of this film, "Shangqing Yun", also hints at female orgasm.
Li Yinhe's evaluation of the film is, "Finally there is a movie that reminds us of the right to female sexual pleasure." ”
In East Asian cultures, female sexuality is often the most overlooked presence.
A woman can only complete sex for the purpose of procreation, but definitely not for the sake of love.
Women who pursue sex for pleasure are often nailed to the shame post of "slut".
So, how precious is this clip of [Send Me to Qingyun].
At the very least, it openly discusses women's exploration and satisfaction of real desires beyond childbearing.
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Ah Kan likes these new women on the screen.
Charlize Theron in [Mad Max 4], and Yao Chen in Send Me to Qingyun.
Theron, the Hollywood actress from South Africa —
Since winning an Oscar in 2004 for the role of the serial female killer in "Female Demon Head", she has begun her unique path of actor attack.
Instead of taking the sexy actress route, it is more of a fierce and capable female thug and female warrior role such as [Mad Max 4] and [Extremely Cold City].
Or the mother in [Tully], who gained a full 45 pounds for this image.
Theron uses these roles to rebel against Hollywood's typical casting model, which gives us another possibility for Hollywood women.
Off the screen, Theron also created the Charlize Theron Africa Aid Project to help his native South Africa fight AIDS.
On the screen, she has become a female pioneer in everyone's heart.
And the domestic actress Yao Chen, from a generation to remember the brutal and spicy Guo Furong in "Wulin Wai Biao".
Su Mingyu, who has never enjoyed the warmth of family in "All Is Good".
Then to the independent and strong idealist Sheng Nan in [Send Me to Qingyun]."
Every one of her roles is impressive. And it has given a little spark and a little light to many women who are equally confused and lonely.
Faced with the workplace dilemma of middle-aged actresses without drama, Yao Chen did not wait in place, but actively participated in the background.
She opened her own Bad Rabbit Pictures, served as a producer, and worked hard to grasp the initiative of this scene in her life.
There is no need to compete with others, and there is no need to stand against men, a calm and self-confidence is the confidence of women to freely choose each way of life.