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Full audio review? Click here! Women's group portrait movies, Buddha 4 also talked a lot before. In movies like "Little Women" and "Portrait of a Burning Woman" , love, or feelings, occupy a large part of women's lives - in fact, we In most of the film and television works I have seen, women are such sensual animal images.
However, "Blood Avalokitesvara" and "The Favourite" are two very special group movies, especially "Blood Avalokitesvara", because in these two movies, women's feelings are not so important, and they can even become a tool for them to seize power and The bargaining chips, can't help but make me tired of watching the emotional drama of "mother-in-law" and feel that my eyes are bright: such a story of "all the villains" is too fragrant!
"Blood Guanyin" tells the story of a Taiwanese general's widow, Mrs. Tang, who used economic interests and murders to set up a situation to bring down her lover's political enemy; in order to accomplish this, she did not hesitate to use her daughter Tangning as a chess piece. Sell Hue and complete this chess game for her. And the granddaughter Tang Zhen, who witnessed all this and participated in it to some extent, also quickly grew into a ruthless and sophisticated female entrepreneur in the whirlpool of conspiracy and power.
The most outstanding character, Mrs. Tang always greets people with a smile on her face. She seems to be submissive, but in fact, she uses her sharp eyes and meticulous thinking to lay a big net that no one can escape. She is Tangning's mother, Tangzhen's grandmother, and their blood relatives, but in Mrs. Tang's eyes, Tangning and Tangzhen are just tools for their own interests; whoever is disobedient, or is not easy to use, can do it at any time throw away.
Compared with "Bad Girl" films like "Blood Avalokitesvara", which are completely dragged down by feelings, "The Favourite" is simply better, because the heroine of the film, Abigail, dares to use feelings as a lever to leverage wealth and status, and the British Empire The first favorite, Sarah, competes for the queen's favor, and completes the transformation from a wealthy daughter of a declining family to a wife of an important minister (in the process, she also uses the feelings of the important minister Masham, played by Taylor's boyfriend Joe).
Of course, at the end of the story, Abigail did not escape the control of Queen Anne, who was at the pinnacle of the British Empire's power - this is almost certain, but her arch-enemy Sarah has been driven from the British borders, and the Queen has no other favorites. , I have to say that Abigail wins.
But "The Favourite" has a flaw in my opinion, because I feel that feelings have taken too much place in Queen Anne and Sarah's relationship. Of course, Queen Anne in "The Favourite" and in historical records is an image of a lack of love, a desire for love, and a fear of losing love: she has lost 17 children, her husband died prematurely, and she is sick all the time; but such a person , stands at the pinnacle of the power of the British Empire, countless people want to please her, and countless people want her to die.
So Sarah, the childhood sweetheart, as the queen's lover and wife of an important minister, became the queen's spiritual and political pillar. The Queen needs Sarah, but Sarah also needs to fulfill the political interests of the Whig party she belongs to through the Queen's favor, so competing with Abigail for favor is something that must be done in a reasonable way for Sarah.
When Sarah was drugged by Abigail and fell off her horse, she was seriously injured and lingered outside the palace for a few days; when an official came to take her back to the palace, Sarah's first sentence did not ask how the queen was, or whether Abigail was favored Instead, he asked, "What about the British Empire?"
It can be seen from this sentence that Sarah's political ambitions are in the first place, and she lives in the struggle of power all the year round; logically speaking, she should be very good at using means to obtain and consolidate her own interests. These means include her interests, rights, as well as beauty and affection. When Abigail was favored for the first time, in order to restore the Queen's favor, Sarah once took out the love letters she and the Queen wrote to each other when they were young, read them to the Queen, and then burned them, making the Queen feel itchy, sad and distressed. , can be said to be very good!
However, at the last and most crucial moment, when Abigail had already gained power, and the Queen still had a bad heart for Sarah and agreed to meet her through a door, all of Sarah's clever tricks had disappeared, and she would only look like a The jealous woman repeated, "I am the one who loves you the most. Abigail doesn't really love you at all."
This... it really feels like a bit of a person's set collapse...
In fact, if you go back and watch "Han Zhu Gege" with such a vision, the only reasonable and tenable character is the notorious queen. The queen lives in the harem all year round. Before entering the palace, she was also the daughter of a powerful family. It can be said that she was born to participate in the "Game of Thrones". When she saw a young and beautiful girl appearing next to the emperor, the highest representative of power, the queen's first reaction was: This person was sent to the palace by Fu Lun, and the interest group of the concubine Ling! ——This is the normal reaction of a very sturdy interest group core. On the other hand, it was precisely because Xiaoyanzi and Ziwei belonged to Concubine Ling's interest group that Concubine Ling would do everything possible to help them obtain the status of Gege, and even joined forces and finally married Brother Wu, the interests of the group. Unprecedentedly powerful! No wonder the queen looked at them like a thorn in their eyes, a thorn in their flesh, she made sense completely! However, when we are still young, after watching "Returning the Pearl", we can only sigh with tears: true love is invincible...
"Blood Avalokitesvara" and "The Favourite" are actually very precious. Throughout the Chinese market, most film and television works, especially serial dramas, have become the site of "love is bigger than the sky". Turn on the TV, a bunch of men and women love to death and unreasonable, and a bunch of concubines are racking their brains and disregarding common sense in order to compete for a man's favor (not the right represented by this man). But back to reality, love is actually just a very small part of the world: some people will choose to give up everything for love, some will choose to give up love for family affection, and of course some people will choose to give up love for power and wealth, these are all It's just a personal choice, and (without harming the interests of others) no choice is inferior to the other. Soey and I sincerely hope that more "Wicked Girl" movies like "Blood Guanyin" and "The Favourite" can grab a piece of the Chinese audience's attention. Because only in this way, young girls will see that it turns out that not only love is worth pursuing in this world, but Chinese women are worth pursuing their own dreams, their own careers, their own wealth and status!
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