Speaking of the big news in July this year, garbage classification is certainly indispensable, I believe that many friends now, seeing garbage will hurt their brains, so in line with the principle of attacking poison with poison, Xiaobian wants to recommend an animated movie of "all garbage" - "Female Him".
"Female He" is a domestic stop-motion animation, director Zhou Shengwei, released at the Shanghai Film Festival on June 22, 2018, although the film failed to be released in theaters, but with its avant-garde style and quite critical spirit of the story, it received a lot of praise after being broadcast on the Internet, and won the nomination for the Best Animated Film at the 21st Shanghai Film Festival Golden Jubilee Award.
Friends who know stop-motion animation know that stop-motion animation can be said to be the easiest and most complex animation category, and the manual threshold is not high, but the time cost is extremely high. The completion of "Female He" took a total of 6 years, and in addition to post-production and special effects, more than 200 models and more than 50,000 photos were almost completed by the director, and the most interesting thing is that more than 80% of the items used to build scenes and make characters in the film are caused by domestic garbage.
↑ Adjust the director of the model
But choosing to use household garbage to make this film is not for gimmicks or performance art, but only because the director was still a student when making "Female Him", although there was enough time, but there was no money, so he thought of the least expensive way to do it, using garbage to do it!
Later, Zhou Shengwei launched a huge garbage recycling activity, and who among the students who participated at that time could have imagined that the garbage they donated would become the cornerstone of others' dreams in the future?
↑"Fertility prison" made of dyed old clothes
This film born from household garbage is a good confirmation of the truth that imagination can change people's perception and thus make our lives come alive.
Zhou Shengwei's imagination gave the garbage a richer meaning and changed his destiny. Waste clothes, cigarette butts, cartons, pipes, bottles... In the film, it becomes a factory, a prison, a forest, a street. Later, "Female He" became famous in one fell swoop, and the garbage that should have been thrown into the garbage dump is now displayed in the Hao Art Museum in Shanghai.
↑ Some character settings for women's shoes, men's shoes, and one-eyed lips
The movie "Female He" should not be difficult to see from the name, this is a story about feminism, which uses the garbage of reality to construct a bizarre fantasy world. The protagonist of the story is a bright red high heel, she lives in a world that does not allow women's high heels to work to make money, and can only become a slave, single mother high heels in order to support her only daughter, transfiguration for men's shoes in the tobacco factory cigarettes.
After reading the story setting, whether you think you are a feminist or anti-female boxer, you don't have to look down to comment on the punch, be sure to say something to use your brain and then type, don't take the follow-up re-reading as interesting.
The game between male and feminist rights, the confrontation between rights and desires
In the world of shoes, women's shoes are placed under house arrest as slaves to black shoes in "birth prisons", where men's shoes provide food for women's shoes, and women's shoes produce offspring in prison.
↑ Modification surgery: Cut off the plant that symbolizes the feminine characteristics and dye it with color
After witnessing the cruel reform surgery, the heroine could not bear her own children to bear this, so she secretly killed the warden, fled with her daughter, in order to raise her daughter, she put the warden's leather jacket on herself, disguised as a man's shoes to work in the tobacco factory.
Of course, even if they look the same on the outside, there is always a huge difference between women and men on the inside, and women's shoes work hard but never integrate into the collective. At a grand celebration banquet, in order to earn more food, the heroine learned to drink stocking wine from the men's shoes and then spit out a cherry.
This cherry surprised the tobacco factory superior "One-Eyed Lips and Teeth", who seduced the heroine with food and led her to his "magic cave" to serve herself by spitting out more cherries.
The cherry here is an important foreshadowing, symbolizing the fruit of desire, and in the picture where the cherry appears, the background sound effect is the imaginative moaning of a woman, and many of the decorations in the magic cave suggest that the cherry refers to the "unspoken rules" of life.
Later, in the process of being exploited and squeezed, the heroine exposed the natural force (female self) in the body, which made the one-eyed lips and teeth furious, he cut off the heroine's eyes, sewed her mouth, and inserted metal nails symbolizing male strength into her body, trying to transform her, but this was exchanged for the violent movement of the women's shoe power, she devoured the male shoe to attack the malice of the women's shoe, and grew a greater malice to overthrow the rule of the male shoe, in the process the heroine also lost eight hundred.
↑ The Forest of Desire covers the factory
At this point, the heroine-centered rebellion against male power has come to an end, see here, some people may feel that the director is too ugly men, in the name of feminism to flatter women, but the second half of the plot is peak and loop.
After the heroine raised her daughter, she walked into the mirror forest to look at the withered plants on her body, and suddenly felt extremely lonely, she drank sock wine, but she could no longer spit out bright red fruits, the tree of desire did not accept dry fruits, and she lost the qualification to obtain food. Looking back on her life, she seems to have returned from nothing to nothing, and in the end she chose to go to the end.
↑ Repentant mother in the mirror forest
After the mother leaves, the daughter discovers her mother's secret in the mirror forest - exchanging the fruit of desire for food. So she transformed the tobacco factory into a cherry factory, ordered all the women's shoe employees to endlessly produce the fruit of desire, transport it underground, in exchange for more food, and she became another one-eyed lip - the film ends, and the world is once again shrouded in power and desire.
The true intention of the story also fully surfaced at the last moment, there is no gender identity in front of the right, once the desire is excessive, then everyone will be eaten by the right, the real beneficiary has no gender, and has never had only "one-eyed lips". At first glance, "Female He" is advocating feminism, but in fact, it also satirizes extreme feminism.
The premise of equality is not the same, but mutual respect
The cherries mentioned in the first half of the plot are used to please men's shoes, the heroine superficially seems to liberate women's shoes, but in the end only transferred women's shoes from prison to the factory, they still produce cherries to serve men's shoes, but at the same time contradictory oppression of men's shoes, men's shoes want to stay in the factory with dignity, can only make up and disguise as women's shoes, otherwise they can only become the soil of the tree of desire, just like the original women's shoes had to wear male skin into the factory.
The difference in gender identity makes everyone be given different social expectations, men are expected to be strong, dominant, women are expected to be weak and obedient, after the rise of feminism, some extreme feminism began to incite confrontation between men and women, under this catalyst, the current feminism has become a sensitive word, if someone shows that they have feminist tendencies, it will most likely be ironic.
Leaving aside extreme feminism, women's rights (equal rights) alone are not very acceptable to some people, and men believe that women cannot pay the same labor as men, so they are not qualified to talk about equality, but the physical and psychological differences are doomed to men and women can not be exactly the same, but this difference does not mean that which side is inferior to which side, nor does it mean that women pay less than men, nor does it mean that both parties can get the same treatment if they pay the same.
The male protagonists in the film, as well as the male shoes in women's shoes, try to make themselves look like others, but they are never treated equally – in fact, it is not at all different that they lead to inequality, but because their original functions are not recognized by each other.
In his self-report, the director mentioned that he lived in a family of "strong women and weak men", with his father in the lord and his mother working hard as a strong woman. The figure of his mother often working overtime, socializing and drinking, and returning late at night to vomit in the bathroom is deeply rooted in his memory, when Zhou Shengwei felt that his mother was "like a man".
When Zhou Shengwei was in elementary school, he wrote an essay, the first sentence was "My mother is a man", Zhou Shengwei's mother immediately cried when she saw this sentence, which made him realize that his mother also had a soft side, his unconscious prejudice stabbed his mother, and his mother's tears also told about the various malice she suffered in life because of gender and function incompatibility - since then, Zhou Shengwei has had an impulse to make a movie for her parents.
After being admitted to the film school, Zhou Shengwei began to realize this plan, and the core of "Female He" became more and more full in the production process. The now-formed "Female He", in addition to focusing on maternal love, male power and feminism, also fiercely criticizes all the discrimination and prejudice related to "identity", such as skin color, sexual orientation, personality, etc. Special identities that are not respected by the "mainstream", I believe that everyone in this special identity can see themselves from "female he".
No one in the world can guarantee that they won't fall into this special identity. Poverty, introversion, bad looks, illness, old age, etc. may make a person in the "inferior", and the people who create a "sense of superiority" are those who are rich, extroverted, good-looking, healthy, and young, but this sense of superiority is ultimately very easy to repress on the maker, because wealth will flow, personality is not good, health and time is the most easily lost.
↑ The heroine who is still not accepted by the group after transgendering
Since people cannot be the same, they should respect the difference. I think that the world that "women and he" really yearn for must be full of tolerance, as long as they are upright and alive, they can freely choose their own identity, wear the clothes they like, do the work they love, have the freedom to marry and have children, and do not have to live in anyone's eyes. Maybe this day is far away, maybe it won't come at all, but as long as one more person realizes the importance of respect, the distance between "identities" may be shortened a little.