androgyny and feminism

Alessia 2022-03-22 09:03:00

Youth, androgyny, immortality. These are the three taglines that come into my mind when I watch this film. This is a story centered on a unified, androgynous body which travelled through 400 years, from the Elizabethan era to late modernity. Whenever Orlando breaks the "fourth wall", and stares at me, I feel a little guilty for no obvious reasons, as if I'm, whether intentionally or not, in complicity with patriarchy and phallocentrism, even though I AM female.

Always ask yourself: how to be a real woman? or more precisely, how to BECOME a woman?

quotes: 1. "a little learning is a dangerous thing "; 2. "do not fade, do not wither, do not grow old"; 3. "every poet is a fool, but every fool is not a poet"; 4 . “you'll die a spinster, dispossessed and alone”

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Extended Reading
  • Devante 2022-04-23 07:05:26

    "Orlando" is a literary classic of the future. The movie takes Woolf's novel beautifully. I like movies that have historical details depicted. And no one fits the androgynous role better than Tilda Swinton. Mrs. Orlando's scenes with Pope, Swift, and Dr. Johnson are so eloquently written because the likes of Hardy, Stevenson, Loggins, and Darwin are often in the Woolf family.

  • Iva 2022-04-23 07:05:26

    I didn’t quite understand it at first. I stopped looking for background information many times in the early stage before I slowly read it. Especially when I knew that Tilda was a woman, she was very playful, and she needed to constantly emphasize that she was playing a male role (Xu Xian was the most successful in this regard). , so far have not doubted her gender haha) The theme of this one is female, male identity is just a foreshadowing, because only when she is female does she "have a relationship" with others. Although male identity seems to have a high status and title, it is always taken up by others, such as when encountering love or going abroad for war. People around her can only "see" her when she's a woman, although women's status has always been low and questioned. The works of stream of consciousness are rarely seen, and they are not very good at grasping points. The movie viewing experience is a bit like Apichatpong.

Orlando quotes

  • Orlando: Ah, see the virgin rose, How sweetly she doth first peep forth, With bashful modesty. That fair her seems the less ye see her may, Lo see soon after how - more bold and free her bared bosom she doth broad display.

  • Earl of Moray: Don't you see in courting a Cossack, you're humiliating not only your fiancée, but the entire female population of this country.