Since female directors, it is inevitable to interpret the film from a feminist perspective. According to this, the following expression will probably appear: The female dean in power amputated the lower leg of the male soldier, which symbolizes the punishment of female centralization for not obeying the order of human relations under the changed power distribution, so the price he pays is castration. Male soldiers after castration also went out of male gender recognition. Actually, I don't know much about sexism (male and female). In the film, every woman is consciously or unintentionally striving to gain the goodwill of male soldiers, and this kind of goodwill is not entirely emotional recognition, but more psychological comfort to fill the physical emptiness. Therefore, in this sense, the male soldier in the film is only an object of lust for women. The scumbag soldier refuses to accept female visitors in order to continuously satisfy his pride as the only male in the small group. This forms a game. Since it is a game, there is a loser and a winner. At the end of the film, women poison men. This is not the victory of feminism, but the interests of the group are higher than the lust of the individual. The reason why it gave me the impression that "group interests are higher than individual interests" is also because the power source exposed the lightness of Coppola's performance on the six women. Judging from the light shooting of the film, Coppola seems to be shooting the six women from a high angle and from a completely outsider's perspective. He is objective and calm, and seems to deliberately suppress the characters and inner struggles, and make the big plot in the plot smaller. , so that the audience will feel that it is not too big during the viewing process. And this kind of performance confined to a frosted glass box seems to be exactly what Coppola wants. With the natural light photography, the gray and dim interior, the overgrown backyard, the women who have their own thoughts buried a common secret in a very tacit understanding.
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