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The 2016 Indian film "Hot" is a film dedicated to the plight of women at the bottom, but the film did not seem to attract much attention at the time, perhaps because it was related to the storyline and overall tone of the film. The protagonists in the film are all women at the bottom of society, they are housewives or dancers, and the film is full of unfair phenomena such as discrimination against women and domestic violence, and is filled with a heavy atmosphere extended from the old era.
The film mainly revolves around the story of the lives of three women, Lani, who married at the age of fifteen, never got the love of her husband after marriage, after the early death of her husband, she became a widow at a young age, and since then she has been serving her mother-in-law, pulling her eldest son alone, living a life without any emotional nourishment, and everyone thinks that she should be content with the status quo. And Lassa's life is a different situation, because she has not been pregnant for many years of marriage, and she can only bear it silently by her husband from time to time. Becky Li worked as a dancer in the dance troupe, but privately engaged in prostitution, for which she was ostracized by the villagers and even stipulated that she was not allowed to participate in any ceremonies.
Desperate reincarnation of life
Lani is a typical Indian traditional woman, married at the age of fifteen, her husband liked to prostitute and domestic violence before she died, widowed for fifteen years after her husband died, serving her mother-in-law alone, pulling her eldest son, and longing for others to love herself, but forced by customary traditions to suppress herself, and did not have any consciousness to change the status quo, as she said, when my husband snubbed me, my mother-in-law said that everything would be fine, when my husband went out to prostitute, my mother-in-law said that everything would be fine, when my husband drank and died, She cried but still said that everything would be fine, but after fifteen years, everything did not get better...
Lani watched the years pass, her youth also disappeared, for her son's marriage debts, helped him buy a bride, turned a blind eye to the future daughter-in-law's pleas for help at the villagers' meeting, turned a deaf ear to the girl's cries for help on the wedding night, and remained silent about the domestic violence of her friend Lassa.
But on the night of her son's wedding, the mother-in-law suddenly passed away, Lani began to cry, desperate eyes, in addition to the mourning for the mother-in-law, more is the sadness of their own, perhaps for a moment to recall the words that the mother-in-law once comforted, obviously all this is the only expectation that "they" can grasp in their minds after being constantly oppressed, there will be no miracle at all... It was as if Lani had seen through her entire life at a glance: she was lonely like a mother-in-law. This year, she was only thirty-two years old, but she felt that her life was over.
Ridiculous violent lies
Pull buck, the husband is also drunk and loves domestic violence, coupled with years of infertility, perennially endure the husband's beatings, no children of the buck, through excellent manual work, got the job and remuneration, originally wanted to win the husband's favor, but still ushered in the husband's scolding, in the eyes of men, women's autonomy, is the most heinous. In order to get pregnant, Lassa had to find someone else to borrow seeds, but after becoming pregnant, she was still beaten by her husband, and at this time, she knew that her husband had pushed the cause of infertility to himself over the years.
Miserable trading tools
Becky, a geisha, who makes a living from pornographic performances and receiving guests, has a warm and spicy personality, thinks that she has surpassed the traditional patriarchal shackles, but finds that in the end it is only the object of men's obscenity, and after appearing younger and more beautiful geisha than her, she finds that she originally had no choice, and when she thought she met true love, she found that the other party was just a pimp.
Crush the women at the bottom in all aspects, so that they are completely reduced to a tool for serving men
In the film, there are pictures of brutal treatment of women everywhere, a woman who has become the target of rape by the whole family of men in the in-laws' family has escaped back to her mother's house, and has been forcibly sent back to her mother-in-law's family by her mother-in-law's family, for the mother's family, whether she is alive or dead, she is no longer a person here.
Everything in the village is decided by male elders, maintaining the status and authority of men in the village, men can beat and scold their own women at will, endless alcoholism, prostitution, and mistresses, and women should drop out of school at a certain age and be sold, and even returned at will, they live in the world, the greatest value is to satisfy men's sexual desires, only for them to pass on the generations, and must have boys, because women are "shorter" than men, they will be accused and discriminated against by others.
The women's representatives in the village demanded that televisions be installed in the village to enrich the lives of the women, but the so-called male elders accused one by one of modern equipment such as televisions and mobile phones, so that these women had too much contact with the outside world and learned badly, the so-called bad learning, but only paying attention to dressing up and free love, which was not allowed.
Under such male authority and social public opinion, women are not only subject to this supervision and bondage, but also can only become men's "punching bags" and "puppets", which can be scolded by them at will, and the reading club will become a bad wife, and the object of everyone's curse and ridicule.
Such a barbaric and ignorant society, without the help of external more powerful forces, can not conflict with this "thick wall", and the women here will always be treated barbarically, without marital autonomy, just the father's property, may sell you a good price when you are fourteen or fifteen years old, and their greatest survival value is only to serve men.
When foreign civilizations are completely destroyed
The representative of the village Chinese Ming is a couple. The man was responsible for helping the women of the village find some handmade fabric business, and was hated by the villagers for making the women more profitable than the men, and his competence also stabbed the poor self-esteem of the idle men. For this, he was beaten by the village men.
His wife, on the other hand, is a highly educated college student working as a teacher in a neighboring village, but she is criticized by the men in the village, believing that she is a witch who spreads harmful things. At the end of the film, the female teacher cries that her husband's life and death are uncertain and she can only leave the village forever. This was the only couple who made them better, but they were hostile to the men of the village and eventually had to flee the place.
Like "the fire," it awakens self-awareness
Three women, three completely different lives, whether they have marriages, husbands, children or not, all without exception, this misfortune stems from the oppression of women in all aspects by these male-dominated traditional ideas, Lani is the victim of child marriage, Lassa is the typical representative of women being used as a reproductive machine, and Becky reflects the traditional deprivation of women's sexual rights. In the film, the three female characters have a large number of intimate dialogues between women, there is the sincerity of friendship, the desire for love, the yearning for beautiful sex, even if each person faces different life oppression, but still maintain a hot hope for the future.
Lani did not discriminate against them because of Rasson's infertility and Becky's infidelity, and when Rani realized that the child daughter-in-law Zhan Qi, who was found for her son, would only end up like herself in the future, she resolutely let Go to let her follow her own happiness, and at the same time sold the home that had trapped her for many years. Lani may not realize what she has done, but she decides to start listening to her inner voice.
Rassoa wants to be a mother, and when she boldly borrows seeds from a strange man, when the man does not scold her like her husband, but treats her gently, she is excited and sheds tears, which is the respect she has always longed for. When her husband learned that she was pregnant, Lassa welcomed her husband's intensified fists and feet, and this time Lassang instinctively slapped her husband back, and she began to learn to resist.
Although Becky Li has a spicy personality and dares to love and dare to hate, when she is not liked by mainstream society and is excluded, she still cherishes everyone around her who is good to her. Even if she is around different men every day, Becky li knows that there is nothing else in life besides money and sex, and love is the happiness she pursues.
Their pursuit of life, the desire for love, in addition to the mutual support between women, but also thanks to the help of other men, the only civilized couple in the village, Kishan is completely different from the local men, he not only fights for the rights and interests of local women, but also helps them to seek handicraft work. The "phone man" who has not appeared in the film also gives Lani spiritual help, and the help of the outside world is also one of the important reasons for women's awakening.
When Rasor was once again abused by her husband, fortunately Rani arrived in time to defeat Manuki with Rassoa and burn her husband to death, and as the camera turned, another fire outside was burning at the celebration of the Tokachi Festival, and everyone celebrated Rama's victory over the Ten Demon King, Lobona. Rani, Lassa, and Becky chose to escape in this festival, it seems that they have broken through the shackles and run to freedom, but at the end they are faced with the choice of forked roads, which means that in the future, they are still facing choices and challenges, but which direction to go, and finally make their own decisions.