What is needed, the young body will look for it

Zachary 2022-01-09 08:03:17

The title is the theme of the January album of Lens Vision that I saw a few days ago, which fits the feeling of watching "Wild Horse".

There are so few eye-catching Turkish movies every year. Last year, the work "Hibernation" directed by Nuri Big Ceylon won the Palme d'Or, the highest honor, and this year is the directorial debut "Wild Horse" by Tinis Aegwyn. On behalf of France, he was nominated for the 88th Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.

Girl, imprisoned, rebelled, and died.

This is a story that happened in a small town in northern Turkey. The contradiction can't wait to break out in the first 10 minutes. The five young sisters played with the boy on the beach after school. They were spread by the town’s ulterior venomous woman into a kind of “sex scandal”. In the awesome Islamic country, a few words can ferment into a huge moral crisis. So the most direct result is that grandma performed a "virginity check" on five girls and then imposed foot restraints. The restrictions gradually escalated, arbitrarily isolating them from the outside world. They were not allowed to go to school, were not allowed to see boys, no. Wear revealing clothes and are not allowed to watch football games. Go on a blind date and get married. From the installation of iron windows to the iron fence at the door, this "home" has become more and more like a prison.

The strong oppression finally aroused the five girls to resist physically. No matter how sealed the parents are, they will always have a way to escape. The eldest sister Sonai tore the conservative brown dress to the base of her thighs and sneaked up the window to go out to meet the boy. The third sister shook the car with a strange man and committed suicide. The youngest sister, Lalei, spit in the coffee of the guest who came to propose a marriage. .

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Yes, especially the youngest girl Lale. After her first two sisters got married, she quickly grew into the most scheming little hero of the sister group, just like the 12-year-old girl in "Vajda" who can spend her time studying and unfamiliar with the "Quran" in order to buy a beloved bicycle. In order to help the fourth sister escape the arranged marriage, Lalei could also steal money from her grandma's room, sneak out to find the truck driver Yassin to learn to drive, and ran to far away Istanbul with her fourth sister.

This kind of quirky child image is especially popular in third world movies. The film biweekly once described the reason when reviewing Abbas’s work: Their childhood attachments...not only are they naturally not acting like acting at all, but between every smile and every move, they all reveal the innate innocence that human beings are born with."

Similar expressions also appear in American movies. Dakota Fanning who loves Elvis in 1997 "Hounds", and Abigail Breslin who dances grandpa dance in "Little Miss Sunshine" , Even Chloe Moretz, the "Super Killer Girl" in "King of Sea", has similar traits of rebellion. La Lei in "Wild Horse" is the same, reflecting the adult society with poetic expression through the lucid inner world of children. They are still at the age of what they want, and they have not yet formed a "personality mask" that conforms to the needs of public opinion, and they can make people "accidentally see" the true and warm beauty.

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Jung mentioned the concept of "personality mask" in his book "Primitive Intention and Collective Unconsciousness". Personality masks originally referred to the masks worn by actors in order to play a particular role in Greek. Later, they generally refer to people taking corresponding attitudes to deal with different situations under the pressure of the environment. In the social norms, each individual has a dual or even multi-personality. Human beings are social animals that must follow cultural customs, but the resulting personality masks are not our true selves.

In "Wild Horse", it is not only the protagonist girls, but also the dual expression of the character of Aunt Emin. 99% of people in Turkey believe in Islam. Under the influence of this traditional doctrine all the year round, Aunt Emin has not only become a submissive of male discourse, she also practised supervision and transmission of this concept to young girls, but the plot of the movie has shown us again. Her selfish “rebellious” side, for example, she could sneak out to watch a football game in order to cover the five girls, destroy the switch at home, use rocks to smash the power supply in the town, and make the whole town lose sight of the TV.

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The story structure of "Wild Horse" is very similar to that of Sofia Coppola's "Death of the Virgin" in 1999, and both films have the same alias "Unlockable Youth". All five girls are imprisoned by their families due to traditional teachings (although they are of different religions), and all have suicide plots, but the passionate struggle of "Wild Horse" and the depressive gloom of "Death of the Virgin" are still a distance.

"Death of a Virgin" is extremely artistic in dealing with the girl's struggle. Except for the youngest sister, Cecilia, who jumped off the building unpreparedly, the other four had planned to commit suicide in a group one night, and they also deliberately attracted boys into the house to witness this. Death event. The whole plot arrangement reveals a strong sense of ritual, and many sections of the film are like this. But in "Wild Horse", the five girls' struggle broke out unrestrainedly and intensely, with flesh and blood. Although there was also a sudden suicide by jumping off the building as tragically as the third sister Ejie, and begging for everything as if the second sister was humiliated by her in-laws, the eldest sister Sonai got his wish and married the beloved boy Aikin. The fourth sister Nur escaped with the help of his sister Lalei. The fate of the arrangement, the whole struggle looked mixed, and at least a partial victory was achieved.


And different from the large, gloomy and suffocating scenes of "Death of a Virgin", "Wild Horse" portrays the play of five girls in the room in a beautiful and dreamy way, to a certain extent alleviating the gloomy feeling of the five sisters being forbidden. Director Tinis ·Aigwin made these girls full of youthful vitality in the lens, wild long hair dancing wildly in the wind, like an unquenchable desire for freedom. This kind of beauty is similar to the details of Maggie's grandmother putting jasmine in Bra in "I Grow Up in Iran". Even if they are trapped in a "cage", they still don't give up their desire for beauty. Comparing with Lexie, who littered the house with clothes and the statue of the Virgin in "Death of the Virgin," and abandoned herself and had sex with different men on the roof every night, "Wild Horse" is more exquisite about "building the image", let you see The rotten black box is filled with attractive fragrance of fresh flowers, and the huge contrast inspires the viewers' urge to protect.

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Women who have grown up in the traditional male discourse are struggling to form an independent self-awareness. In 2009, the British "Growth Education" satirized the social structure of patriarchy with the experience of 16-year-old girl Jenny being "being a junior". Jenny had been studying and living according to her parents' wishes and was admitted to Oxford University. By chance, he met David, a witty and knowledgeable man, and he took her to Paris, which she had always dreamed of, and took her to see the feasting and feasting-concert dance, horse racing, gambling, and this man even captured the hearts of Jenny's parents. But no one thought that this David was actually married. After Jenny discovered this, he even evaded responsibility and disappeared completely. The perfect male image constructed in the first 80 minutes of the movie collapsed at the end. Instead, Jenny was regarded as a rigid female teacher and principal earlier, and now she has become the guardian of her free creation.

The Turkish "Wild Horse" also has this meaning, but it is not as clear as "Growth Education". It has a fierce and acute suicide plot, but it leaves unfinished meanings and tantalizing imaginations. It is true that the five girls have their own way to fight against the patriarchal social structure, but all these fights must rely on other men. The so-called "happiness" of the eldest sister was given by men, because the boy she fell in love with was just willing to come and marry her to rescue her from the fire pit; the second sister was taken to the hospital by her in-laws on her wedding night to have her hymen examined, and she was kindly checked. The doctor who helped her lie was a man; Lalei helped the four sisters escape their marriage, and also asked the truck driver Yassin to help, and took them to the station to get on the bus to Istanbul. The details of the bridge section are shining brightly, and they are all about the helplessness of the current situation. Men are still women's way out, it is their strong reliance.

No one knows whether Leila and Nur will be able to live the life they want after they escape to Istanbul. It's tempting to be careful. Let the viewers be sure that even if the flowers confined in the black box wilt and fall, they will still be full of fragrance. For example, Roland Barthes' striptease aesthetics-after the last piece of cloth is removed, it will no longer be sexy.

You see, the sexy of "Wild Horse" is all outside the picture.

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Extended Reading
  • Vito 2022-03-22 09:02:27

    Full of pitfalls. Let's talk about clothes first, you will be more exposed than anyone else, and more conservative than anyone else, so you can't understand. Also, it's very unlikely that a live broadcast of a ball game can take you in, but there's no way, the director makes it happen, and it has to happen. Also, when the streetcar shook, the monkey was so anxious that he didn't even close the window, haha, this is feminism? Stop making trouble, okay, go home and get married and have children~ @kyotocinema

  • Laurine 2022-03-28 09:01:08

    Fight this absurd and cold world in a ridiculous but fiery way. Handheld photography, natural light, a rough aesthetic.

Mustang quotes

  • Lale: The house became a wife factory that we never came out of.

  • Selma: I slept with the entire world.