When I first saw the name "Purple", I didn't know what kind of story it would be, and I didn't know why this film was classified under the horror category on iQiyi, so I clicked on the film with a lot of questions. Watching the entire film, it is safe to say that this is an excellent film about race and feminism.
There are mainly four women in the film, four different lives. One is the heroine Siri, a black girl who grew up in her stepfather's house. She gave birth to two children when she was only fourteen years old. It is a pity that the two children were directly given to the local priest as abandoned babies by the stepfather. , and Siri herself was sold to a black man named Albert as his wife, and she started a miserable life of a maid named her wife. She was enslaved and beaten by her husband. The younger sister, Neti, has lived with Siri since she was a child. After she got married, Siri went to reunite with Siri's house, but was harassed by Albert. Because of the attempted rape, she was kicked out by Albert, and she was with the priest's family who adopted her sister's two children. Opened up a new life in Africa, free and educated; the third is the black female singer Xiuge, who is well-known and the goddess of all black men. Albert is regarded as the queen, and wherever she goes, she is accompanied by flowers and wine. , is also the representative of a typical new woman who encourages Siri to build her self-confidence, find the meaning of her life, discover her strengths, and live for herself; the fourth is Sophia (Oppo) who is at the intersection of Siri and Xiuge. La Winfrey), Albert's daughter-in-law, full of personality, possessing the rare confidence and majesty of black women in that era, never accepting herself as a housewife, she is independent and impatient, but unfortunately lives in such a racially discriminatory In the 1990s, she was suppressed by the white people in a fight to maintain her dignity, and finally gave in. She was humiliated in prison and turned white overnight. She began to be confused about life and bowed her head to life, but finally regained her confidence in life under the stimulation of Siri's awakening. , get back to your original self.
The four stories all ended in a happy ending. The sisters of Sirine Netty reunited. Netty raised a pair of children of Siri in Africa. Siri also opened her own tailor shop. The priest's father released his past suspicions and regained the father-daughter relationship, while Sophia also found herself and her life.
But why is it named purple? Purple means melancholy, full of fantasies, sentimentality, and longing for adventures. This is similar to the character of the heroine Siri. She has no formal education and desires for knowledge, reverie for another life, and melancholy for the current life. It is a realistic depiction of a black housewife. The more she submits, the less her husband pays attention to her, and abandons her like a slob. Instead, her husband runs around the haughty and talented black female singer, and even clumsily cooks food for his goddess. In fact, one of the reasons why men look down on women is that they feel that women cannot create self-worth and must rely on men to survive. Once women can support themselves, just like Siri opened her own tailor shop at the end of the film, her husband Albert began to respect her. , and even a trace of fear can be seen in the respect: if his wife leaves him, his life is better than living with him, and when he leaves Siri, his own life is a mess.
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