Woolf was born and died January 25, 1882 - March 28, 1941. Born more than a hundred years before me. This was how Britain was at that time: women and men were not equal, women were considered to have no personality, not enough thinking ability, women did not have the right to vote, and children legally belonged to their fathers.
Feminism emerged in the world a few decades later. People struggled and shouted, and suddenly found that Woolf, a female writer in the early 20th century, had long thought about what feminism wanted to criticize, and said countless truths, which is also interesting.
Look at love from a gender perspective:
Ah~ men love to betray.
Ah~ a woman just loves to betray.
Don't humans just love betrayal? There is no gender distinction.
The nobles of the upper class think that they respect women, but they think that women's thinking is only more mature than children's and needs the guidance of their fathers or husbands. Orlando asks, "What if I don't have both?" I happen to have neither, so my thinking is utterly stupid in this view. (laugh)
Men who are rejected are mostly furious: "Who would want you with a past like that?" "You'll die an old maid, lonely and deprived of everything." The theory of being old and unable to marry and be alone for a lifetime is almost the same.
Men, fight bravely on the battlefield, but don't die in vain for illusory ideals of freedom or glory.
A woman may not need to project the value of her life on her children, but spend her life taking care of her children and their children. There's no need to trap yourself in what the world thinks is feminine beauty.
People should leave their homes and go wandering.
After more than a hundred years, human thinking does not seem to be more mature than Woolf more than a hundred years ago. Of course, the more she thought about it, the harder it was, and she committed suicide. "The spirit of this world finally knocked me down."
At that time, her novels were regarded as fantasy love stories, and the familiar call of freedom was seen with the eyes of more than 100 years later. Later, Woolf became a pioneer representative of feminism. I have no interest in feminism itself. I think she is a person who is too thinking.
The director of "Orlando" is Sally Porter, who has seen her other film "Ginger and Rosa" before, and her films have the texture of sleepwalking. The film's choice of novel is acceptable. It's impossible to cram the entire plot and stream of consciousness into one movie.
Male directors are good at capturing women's actions and smiles, because men can observe women's reactions. Only a female director can capture the inner workings of a woman, because only a woman understands a woman.
Orlando's self-introduction when he meets Chamerdine in the movie is that I'm dead. People are all going to die, and only after death can they be reborn, and reborn into a new era.
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