Although this is a film from more than ten years ago, it still seems to have a huge impact now, and the subject matter is too realistic. Although the plot is not complicated, and even occasionally feels bugs, it is still very interesting to watch, and there are some comic elements that dilute the heaviness of the subject matter.
(The following content has little to do with the plot of the film, and is purely for personal memories.)
Girls in Africa suffer from such persecution, both physically and psychologically. My knowledge is superficial, and this is the first time I realize how terrifying circumcision really is, and it's creepy. And the Somali doctor in the video who spread the lies is really disgusting. How many men do you want to persecute women under the guise of "customs and traditions"? Although there is no binding of feet or something as terrible as circumcision in our land now, similarly, the oppression of patriarchy has always existed. Every day when social news is opened, there are appalling domestic violence and wife killing, as well as countless "slut humiliation" and victim guilt in the comment area. Borrowing the same logic (although it is not correct), since men have to keep saying "flies don't bite seamless eggs", then there is no need to say "foreign forces" to provoke gender confrontation between men and women, even if foreign forces are provoking, These social news are always real events.
In addition, I deeply feel that my country's sex education has a long way to go. I watched this video for the first time today in my reproductive health class at university. I thought that my family was not an extremely feudal kind, and I could talk about this with my mother in a more open manner at home, but that was just a little bit of the plot in the novel. Before, no, to this day, I still didn't know much about my reproductive anatomy. When I searched for information on circumcision, I found that I didn't understand the medical knowledge at all, and I couldn't even read the organ chart.
If most of the sex knowledge of boys in China comes from the so-called "reed", then my superficial knowledge of sex only comes from novels. In fact, the so-called "meat" in most novels, especially online novels, may not be any different from AV films, which also lack scientificity, and most of them still cater to male perspectives. Although maybe this is also the result of my active choice, because I always thought that I might be a "frigid" kind of person. Although I have been reading romance novels since junior high school, I have never been interested in the plots that need to be coded. However, I used to tell my classmates that I felt that Jinjiang's words had no effect on me at all. But now that I think about it, although we have not been physically castrated since childhood, our minds may have been castrated from birth.
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