As we all know, the most iconic element of Indian cinema, in addition to singing and dancing, is invincible.
Usually, it is male characters who will achieve justice, subvert evil, and capture love through exaggerated fist and foot kung fu.
Today's recommended movie "The Woman on the Cross" is different, because this time it is the turn of the Indian woman to open and hang.
The Woman on the Cross
The protagonist of the film is a girl named Akira, who witnessed a sulfuric acid disfigurement case when she was a child, and she bravely came forward to correct the murderer when everyone was afraid and refused to testify, and then she was harassed by the murderer's accomplice and scratched her face.
Frightened at a young age, she went home to cry to her parents, and her courageous father praised her practices and encouraged her to learn kung fu, and even took her to the streets to teach the hooligans who flirted with women, so Akira was imprisoned in a juvenile detention center for three years.
Akira's childhood ended like this.
It's a rather radical story, and it's hard to imagine a father letting his still young daughter go out into the streets to teach two adult male hooligans, and in the process, completely sidelined, until finally Akira was almost sulphured and panicked.
Indian movies in the creation of heroes, like to use a special event, to put a certain extraordinary mark on him (her), to create a sense of legend, such as the male protagonist in the "Baahubali King" released this year, he lifted the heavy Linga stone statue with his bare hands, showing his own difference, so this ordinary person seems to be quite radical plot, in fact, it is also for the heroine to create momentum, tell everyone that this woman is not ordinary, next, she will open and hang.
The King of Baahubali
As a result, she really started to hang up.
As an adult, Akira came to Mumbai to attend university, and fearlessly, she not only boldly lived in a dead dormitory, but also held the classroom position when the school bully called for a strike, so she quickly attracted revenge.
The female bully who took the lead brought a dozen hooligans to provoke Akira, and as a result, she was killed by her three times five divisions and two.
Akira confronts the school bully
Subsequently, Akira was involved in a police corruption case by some serendipity, and in the face of a high-powered police officer, Akira still had no fear and solved the problem with her fists.
At this point, the heroine Akira drove away the hooligans, taught school bullies, punished corrupt officials, and all of them were single-handed, bare-handed, with one enemy and many more, and frequent hanging.
The actress who plays Akira is Sonash Sinha, who has always shown her beauty, and her performance in the film can be described as groundbreaking, in those plots that even if there is no fight, this beautiful woman seems to have forgotten her past femininity, the performance of fortitude, iron bone, in many fights, is a faction of masculine style, not only Kong Wu powerful, but also rough and heroic.
Sonash Sinha
In addition, India's heroines, like male heroes, not only like to hang, but also like not to use their brains, their methods of solving problems are simple and crude, showing the Absolute Worship of Force by Indians, but on this same soil, Gandhi, who advocates non-violence and non-cooperation, is really incredible.
Gandhi
In Hollywood movies, the role of heroines is more common, such as Alice in "Resident Evil", Laura in "Tomb Raider", Rapley in "Alien", but these female characters, there is no pure masculinity like Akira, Alice and Laura are to varying degrees to show off the sexiness of women, Ripley also showed some female vulnerability, and finally relied on wit, rather than violence to defeat the alien.
Laura in Tomb Raider
From this point of view, Indian films are more radical in the portrayal of heroines, they erase all the characteristics of women, so that women and men are completely equivalent, as if this is the equality of men and women.
In fact, the equality of men and women and the difference between men and women, is not contradictory, under the premise of physiological differences, advocating equal rights and interests of men and women, equal personality, this is the correct solution.
Therefore, I have always disagreed with those naked feminists in the West, they seem to feel that they can only be masculine, in order to truly obtain equality, think about it, if women can only become men, can find self-confidence, that in itself is a kind of inferiority, is a denial and depreciation of female identity, just like a black man must brush himself white, to feel equal, is a truth, women can fully accept their own physiological structure is different, wear a bra to fight for rights and interests, and then take ten thousand steps back, If feminism really feels that it is so good that it can force men to wear bras like women, why should women learn to be naked?
Feminists
Indian cinema is wrong to promote the idea of equality between men and women by erasing all the characteristics of women, and to some extent, it is a logic and root cause for Arabs to cover the gender characteristics of women with black robes.
Women want to fight for the same status and rights as men, not to turn themselves into men.
Therefore, as a work that promotes women's power, this movie allows women to open and hang like men, the meaning is good, and the consciousness is also right, but it is not enough.
Over the years, many feminist works have emerged in the Indian film industry, reflecting the progress of Indian social thought from the side, and four excellent feminist Indian films are recommended here.
1, "Indian English"
It tells the comedy story of a housewife who improves herself by learning English and finally wins the respect of her family.
2, "The Empress"
It tells the story of a solo trip after the young girl Lenny lost her marriage, during which she met various new friends, broadened her horizons, rediscovered her own value and the infinite possibilities of life, and finally learned to be her own master.
3, "Margarita with Straw"
The film tells the emotional story of a young girl with cerebral palsy, reflecting her equal rights thinking at the level of sexual consciousness.
4, "Mary Com"
A live-action adaptation that depicts the inspirational story of a generation of Indian female boxer Mary Combe who worked hard and succeeded.
Finally, I hope that all girls will learn to love themselves, learn to be independent, and learn to be strong.