There are also many female images in the past Westerns, but these female images are not actually women. One type of characters retains the female characteristics, namely the Bond girl image, and the other type completely abandons the female image, just like the little girl in "The Earthquake". Girl, who thinks like a man, blurs out her gender in order to be included in a patriarchal society.
From the very beginning, this film reflects a very common contradiction: Miss Buddy can't get married, she tried her best, as a New York woman with a noble background and excellent temperament, she has independent capital and ability, but she can't marry go out. This contradiction is the main tragedy of the film. And this tragedy contains the tragedy of three mad women.
1. Women who kill their own children because of poverty
2. Young wives who keep losing children because of illness 3. Women
who are constantly raped, abused and self-deprecating because they cannot give birth to boys
These three types of women in the United States at that time And now China can be found. That's what I think is great about this film, even in the 21st century, in many parts of the world - even in China where the great leader once said, "Women hold up half the sky", there are still huge groups of women who are legally and customarily banned. Overall repression and exploitation.
Going back to Miss Buddy's final tragedy, she made an invitation to every man, even the priest, expecting them to marry her. Because the biggest oppression of women is marriage, the miserable lives of those three crazy women are outrageous, but they did not choose to commit suicide, because they still have the protection of marriage and are recognized in society. And Miss Buddy has no identity in society at all. Like black slaves, he has no right to withdraw money - male signature is required (in the movie "Hot Tears Scar", even in the 1960s, the husband and wife of the Bank of America made joint deposits, and the wife had no right self-check), no right to draw lots, no right to transport these mad women alone. For society, she is not a person at all, she does not exist.
In the end, brig is seen by buddy as immoral (joined only for money), irresponsible (leaving her out alone so she can't find her way back, and fleeing from military service), penniless (he's gone from military service alone) escaped from the barracks with nothing but horses) so to speak, he was a beggar. However, buddy still proposed to him, I have everything. Brig told her that he had escaped from such a marriage before, and Buddy still didn't care, and asked again, Brig still refused, and Buddy committed suicide because of it.
Another thing to mention is religion. Buddy and the pastor's wife played by Meryl are very Christian. Buddy is willing to risk his life in order to repair a child's tombstone, and Christianity does not allow suicide, so when Meryl asked Brig, he said that Buddy died of illness. . When the kind pastor's wife heard the fate of these poor women, she kept saying, "No, no, I don't want to hear it." These women are no different from black slaves. After they lost their families, they also lost their human qualifications. People care about them, no one wants to see them.
Brig knew that he missed the best woman in the world, and this woman died because of him. He blamed the others, he couldn't figure out the whole thing, so he went back to the past, a jug of wine, and singing, forgetting the worries.
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