Every mother-in-law is a murderer? No, it's just a cycle of tragedy
1993 was a landmark year for Chinese cinema.
At the 43rd Berlin Film Festival in Germany, two films from China finally entered the final section and won the Golden Bear for Best Picture at the same time.
One of the award-winning films is called "The Wedding Banquet", directed by Ang Lee, a Chinese director who is still famous around the world today.
Another award-winning film is called "Fragrant Soul Girl", directed by Xie Fei.
As a fourth-generation Chinese director, his works are as unknown as those of people.
However, standing at the height of history, we will look back and find that this "Fragrant Soul Girl" also has a very special significance for Chinese women!
First, a shrewd and capable strong woman
The main line of the movie "Fragrant Soul Girl" mainly revolves around the story of two women, or to be more precise, a pair of mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, of which the mother-in-law is the second sister-in-law (played by Sichen Gaowa) who is shown by the strong woman of the perfume oil factory in the film.
As soon as the movie opens, the director uses only a few simple strokes to outline the strong woman characteristics of Xiang Erjie, such as her husband wants to take money to smoke, and Xiang Er sister-in-law is only willing to give him five yuan, which shows that this woman actually holds the economic power of the family;
For example, accusing the guys in the store of being lazy shows that this woman is actually the pillar of the family.
But as soon as the picture turns, we can also see such an image in this woman's body, that is, to serve an old snack and drink Lasa, but also to put the home in order, here it seems to be the image of a good wife and mother.
In a woman, you can see these two perfect personalities at the same time, Pigo thinks it may be what most men think in their hearts, and most men have their hearts in mind.
But there is a saying called: "Behind every perfect person, there are countless broken souls."
Behind Xiang's second sister-in-law, there stood two "mutilated souls", one was her husband, crippled, drunk, and violent; the other was his son, a fool, who had suffered from epilepsy, and did not know what to do.
In the traditional Chinese view, a woman lives the first half of her life on a strong husband, and in the second half of her life mostly depends on her capable son.
However, for the traditional woman of xiang's second sister-in-law, in the first half of her life, she met an unreliable husband, probably without hope, and in the second half of her life, this son is a fool, and it is estimated that she has to rely on her to support.
So it's not that she wants to be shrewd and capable, it's not that she wants to be a strong woman, it's actually that she's just aware that maybe she has no hope, in fact she just found that she has no way out.
Outsiders have only seen her shrewdness and ability, but few people have asked her what difficulties she has in her heart?
Second, the little girl of the poor family
A woman's greatest wealth in her life is her "youth", whether it is poor or rich.
For another heroine of the film, Huan Huan, in the best years of her life, she also met the person she loved the most, and also met the person she most wanted to entrust for life.
She wants to dedicate her youth to love, she wants to dedicate her love to marriage.
It's just that the man seems to have lost her, and in the face of career and love, the man did not hesitate to choose the career and left her.
What is even more frightening is that his father owes a large amount of loans, and seeing that he is about to demolish the house and sell the land, Huan Huan chooses to use his youth as a price to exchange for a dowry of fifteen thousand yuan from the hands of Xiang Erjie.
But what this little girl doesn't know is that once love and money are equated, many things become qualitative.
For example, if you are not wronged, you can't escape: not long after the new marriage, xiang er's stupid son suddenly fell ill, huanhuan fled back to her mother's house, saying that she would not go back again, xiang er sister-in-law rushed to Huanhuan's house and said to her: "You can't come back, but this fifteen thousand yuan, you have to even return the interest!" ”
For example, if you have been beaten and bullied, you can't mention divorce: after being bullied by a stupid husband, Huanhuan can only go to the small river alone to cry secretly, dare not cry, dare not complain, and the next day you have to pretend that the wind is light.
It is said that sensible children are the most aggrieved, but Pi ge wants to say more: "The children of poor families may be the most aggrieved!" ”
And the ring ring is a typical example of this.
Third, every mother-in-law is a murderer
Why would such a shrewd and capable second sister-in-law marry an ugly cripple? Pigo thinks this is a question that everyone who watches this film will have in their minds.
The director also lightly explained the past of Xiang Erjie through the mouth of others, it turned out that when She was very young, Xiang Erjie's hometown was flooded, and when she was seven years old, she was sold by her own father to the lame family and became a child bride.
When she was 13 years old, Xiang Er Sister-in-law was asked to round the house, and on the day of the round house, Xiang Er Sister-in-law came to the small lake alone and wanted to commit suicide by throwing herself into the river, but the mother-in-law who followed her pulled her and advised her: "Bear with it, patience will pass!" ”
This forbearance is twenty years, and this forbearance she has also survived from a daughter-in-law to a mother-in-law.
And the day she became a mother-in-law, and the moment she was faced with marrying her stupid son, she suddenly became the same person as her mother-in-law.
For the happiness of her son, she ruthlessly broke up a loving couple, promised to profit, seduced with righteousness, and when she saw her daughter-in-law also walk to the small lake where she wanted to throw herself into the river, she seemed to see her past in a trance.
She also felt that she was too cruel, and she felt that she was too cruel, but as a traditional woman, she felt that she should be a mother first, a wife, and finally herself.
So she would rather sacrifice Huanhuan's life, and she would rather watch the young and beautiful Huanhuan re-walk her old path.
She could even say to Huan Huan fiercely, "As long as you live a good life, you will pass", she was persuading Huan Huan to endure, just like her mother-in-law advised her back then.
It is conceivable that in the future, in the next generation, the same tragedy may be really staged, and Huanhuan may also say the same thing to his daughter-in-law and do the same thing, because in their bones, the first thing they think of is always the role of mother, the role of wife, but never themselves.
The reason why the ring in the movie is called the ring may be because the director is hinting at us that such a female character, such a female tragedy has been circulating, has been circulating.
Just like a story That Pigo heard many years ago: in the 90s, those mothers-in-law forced their daughters-in-law to lose their girlishness, and when those daughters-in-law became mothers-in-law, they also used the same tone to persuade their daughters-in-law.
Perhaps the saddest thing in the world is that women are obvious victims, but then they also become perpetrators.
This piece was hidden between some mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, and the truth that was ashamed to be told was filmed.
Fourth, the last straw
In fact, there is a special light in everyone's dark life, like a life-saving straw that has been supporting them forward.
And the light of xiang's second sister-in-law is her lover Ren Zhongzhong (Chen Baoguo), and every time the drench of life is about to knock her down and leave her, it is this man who rekindles her fighting spirit, and it is this man who rekindles her hope.
When she decides to marry her stupid son, she asks Ren Zhongzhong;
When she is beaten by her own husband, it is Ren Faithful who seeks comfort.
Ren Faithful is the light in her life, always lighting up the way she has to go.
But unfortunately, at the last moment, the man chose to escape, he went to the distant provincial city, and chose to cut her off.
This also became the last straw to crush the second sister-in-law of Xiang, and the second sister-in-law of Xiang was sick.
What disease did she have, you ask?
It is a heart disease, it is a lovesickness, it is a disease that cannot be loved.
In the film, Xiang Erjie's sister-in-law rowed a boat alone and ran into the reeds to hold her head and cry, which really made people cry, the distant view was the vast heavenly water, a lonely woman leaning between the lonely heaven and earth, just like the rootless duckweed, passed on the gods, but also cooled the heart!
Like the second sister-in-law of Xiang, the last straw that overwhelmed the ring was also a man.
His name was Jin Hai, and he was originally a clerk in Xiang Erjie's shop, but when Xiang Erjie proposed to let him go to the provincial city as a manager and make a lot of money, this man did not think about it, so he left his object HuanHuan and went to the provincial city alone.
If a woman still believes in love at the age of thirty, it is really stupid, and if a woman does not believe in love at the age of twenty, it is a real pity.
It is a pity that the twenty-year-old HuanHuan believes in love and mispays love, and in the case of love has passed away and reality is vivid, she can only succumb to fate.
At the end of the movie, Xiang Erjie saw the injured ring and said to her bitterly: "You go, go and seek your own happiness!" ”
But Huan Huan said, "Who else will marry me in the future?" ”
This answer seems to point out the theme of the movie again, as if to tell us that HuanHuan has become, or will eventually become, the next Xiang Second Sister-in-Law.
But who will be the next ring?
Text/Pippi Film Editorial Department: Qingqing
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