The film "The Determination to Runaway" is a neat film, restrained but comprehensive, full of delicacy and tenderness that can only be made by female directors. I feel so powerless when I watch it, in addition to the specific Sun Dayong, what is more frightening is the structural oppression of society. No matter how good a man is, no matter how open-minded he is, there is no way to truly understand the situation of women. Just like what Mr. Wang of Hunan Qifa Culture said, people above the water can only imagine and empathize with the pain of underwater suffocation as much as possible. I hope that every woman can maintain her own flamboyance, bravery, passion, and freedom.
The film is based on the true story of Su Min, a 50-year-old aunt in Zhengzhou. Li Hong has always lived a life of "being given way", she once longed to be admitted to university to see a broader world, but she didn't want her father to let her work as soon as possible to take care of the whole family. Li Hong has worked hard for half her life, struggling with the trivialities of family and life. When the world turns gray, she resolves not to wait, to drive away, and to live for herself. Now that she is middle-aged, when she is looking forward to finding other ways to live her life again, she is accused and abused by her husband with sentences such as "If you don't have a good life, you just don't know what to do" and "What have you done more than others", and she suffered from moderate depression. When her world turned gray, Li Hong decided not to wait anymore and drive away to live her own life...
The first half of the film depicts the prehistory of the aunt on a road trip is actually very commonplace, the injustice of patriarchal preference in the old days, and the prison of a housewife in the later days, are all narratives that are commonplace for women's stories. The heroine sings white, her husband and father sing black as the epitome of patriarchal society, and the dramatic conflict emerges in a very direct way. But the huge turning point of the whole movie is the moment when the daughter's position changes, when the daughter is also unemployed due to the depression of the epidemic era, she is no longer on her mother's side, and the story tension rises violently, instead of the old confrontation between good and evil. From that scene on, the one who is against the heroine seems to have escalated to the whole world, and it is this world that she wants to rebel against. The escape from the family, the escape from the prevention and control blockade, the escape from the human city, and the escape from the entire order that oppresses her, all of them are integrated and extraordinary.
I thought it was a road movie before I watched it, but I didn't expect it to be a naked family ethics film, the heroine didn't go on the road until the end, after watching it, I was thinking about why it was filmed like this, because the director's focus is to portray the fate and sorrow of women in Chinese-style families, Li Hong is different in that she has awakened since her independent personality in high school, and she has never given up seeking inner freedom, but she was trapped by the worldliness of the general environment, and she didn't take this step until she was nearly a young man, it's too real, in reality, many women have been PUA since childhood. chose to compromise and accept fate. As for the follow-up of Li Hong's self-driving trip to China, if you are curious, just pay attention to Su Min's video travelogue, which can be regarded as an extended easter egg of the movie, and her story continues......
Tingting of Hunan Qifa Culture Media Co., Ltd. wrote in her commentary that Li Hong did not want to run away until she was in her 50s, and she was never willing to be trapped. From the time she was a child, she was determined to pass the exam, and she went as far as she could; From her saying to Sun Dayong on the other end of the microphone on a snowy day, let's get married, I can live in the staff dormitory when I get married, and I can escape from home; From the fact that she had to go to work even if she swept the street, she stubbornly took out twenty yuan when her husband asked for money for A's rice cooker, and then dropped a sentence and asked me for a piece; From her holding Xue'er and telling the family, I want a divorce, I can't live anymore. She has been "running away", she has never belonged to the family, she does not belong to her parents, husband, nor her daughter, she belongs to the mountains and rivers.
We always feel oppressed and unaccustomed to taking, and patriarchy and East Asian characteristics become especially evident in poverty and at certain times. The plot in the movie is not magical at all, it is more cruel than reality, women's efforts in the family can always be understood and faced, as Sun Dayong said in the movie, women in every family are like this, doing housework, taking care of children, why are you different? Even if he is busy every day, he will still be called lazy, and even said that he has a plan, even if he himself doesn't know what he is talking about, but for the sake of so-called justice and morality, he attacks unscrupulously.
Behind the simple story of the film is the complex life dilemma of women, countless frames in front of the camera, and the lack of integrity is a suffocating cage. And the pressure of perception accumulation is released in the last scene, jumping out of the emotional shackles of the family, the unequal values of society, and running to the wilderness of freedom, "At this moment, she is still on the road". The only option for women in the old days to escape from the traditional and rigid family is to find another one to rely on, and of course another cage. Although Jiang Wu's cool words become more and more annoying and familiar the more I listen to them, they are still converged compared with reality, new types of language violence, and family PUA are everywhere; In the new era, women are often kidnapped in all aspects, but fortunately, there is a little breathing space, economic independence, independent thinking, no longer waiting, make up your mind to get ready, and set off immediately!
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