Soldier's girl: The tragedy of the patriarchal society Pink lapels, light yellow curtains, the wind in the field, gently blowing through... The whole film chooses light tones, the characters' clothes, scenery, and buildings are all soft and fresh colors , Cali's water red shirt, honey-colored hair, verdant tender willows, warm golden sunlight, sparkling lake surface, pure white T-shirt on Barry's body, and an obsessive smile on his lips. They rowed the boat so leisurely and Cali sang so leisurely... It's like any pure love story, clear and sweet, so when Barry's gushing blood stained the whole wall and soaked it When the whole bed was full, the scarlet color was so shocking that the audience shuddered.
"Like many moving stories, this is a love story; like many moving stories, it has a tragic ending." This true story takes place in the 1990s when the United States implemented a "don't ask, don't tell" policy on military camp management. In the United States, the acceptance of non-heterosexuals is very low due to social issues such as religion. In the late 1980s, a policy was promulgated to prohibit homosexuals from joining the military. Later, it was opposed by different parties and the masses. With a concession, that is, "don't ask, don't tell", the superior officials and guests do not take the initiative to ask or investigate, and the sergeants do not have to take the initiative to confess their sexual orientation. It seems fair, but it has strengthened suspicion in the army and buried hidden dangers. The protagonist, Barry, was taken to a transgender strip club by his roommate Fisher to drink. He met a young and beautiful dancer, Calpernia, and fell in love at first sight. Cali has a gender identity disorder, performed in clubs to make money to prepare for gender reassignment surgery, and maintained her female appearance by continuous injections of estrogen. But you can hardly see the shadow of a man in Cali, except for her graceful figure, she whispers when she is nervous, plays with her hair when talking on the phone, giggles when she talks about Barry... A charming, eccentric little woman, it's no wonder that Barry is desperate to fall in love with her.
But I don't want to discuss Barry and Cali's magnificent and tragic love in this article. I want to dig deeper into Fisher and Clover. To be honest, when I first watched it, I thought that these two people were standard middle-2 teenagers, except for neuroticism and mentality. Their only role in the play was to act as villains, but this is not the case after watching and thinking about it. At that time, the whole society was shrouded in absolute patriarchy. As a soldier, Fisher was more paranoid about his sexuality. He first took Barry to a transgender strip club, and later he kept intervening in Barry's private life to persuade him to break up with Cali. After the persuasion failed, he secretly spread rumors that Barry was gay, but when Barry confronted him, he told Barry that he was a child The secret of dressing up as a girl and being bullied by boys to show loyalty, and when Cali quarreled with Barry, Cali said that she noticed that Fisher looked at Barry abnormally. Attracted by men, but because of his desire to integrate into the patriarchal society, he has a strong rejection of his own instincts from the inside out, resulting in homophobic tendencies. He frequents clubs, has sex with transgender people, calls them bitches viciously when he is laughed at, and inflicts violence on innocent sexual partners. Previous movies featured Fisher's ex-wife leaving him with a child, marriage His failure and the pressure of the military made him eager to show his masculinity through these abnormal ways and gain the recognition of mainstream patriarchy. Fisher's constant sabotage of Barry's love affair, and even his despicable sowing behind his back, all stemmed from his concern for Barry's pervertedness. He can lie without shame and swear to be his best friend and brother forever, and when Barry refuses to "care" from him, he will get angry and secretly use arrows, intensifying the conflict between Barry and Clover, a junior in middle school , which eventually led to the tragic death of Barry at Clover's hands. I believe that the tears that Fisher cried while holding the dying Barry were real, but Fisher was essentially cowardly and cowering. After Barry was killed, he denied what he had done, and tried to describe his friendship with Barry in every possible way to escape punishment. Undoubtedly, Fisher was a victim of the distorted gender concept of that era, a poor bastard huddled in a dilemma under the intensified patriarchy, Fisher.
Clover's thinking is simpler. A seventeen-year-old underage, with an Oedipus complex, depends on his mother for everything. After entering the military camp, he is eager to prove his maturity and masculinity, and his view of masculinity is only "some kind" , that's why when people don't believe that he robbed the bank he went crazy, because in his eyes it was a contempt for his own masculine power. Clover refused to give in to every battle of words, and he was hysterical when he started, which is the embodiment of his eagerness to be recognized after he first entered the armed group. And Barry's calmness, kindness and politeness made him a soft persimmon in Clover's eyes. The weak Clover did not dare to challenge his superiors, so destroying Barry became his subconscious shortcut to establish masculinity. After Fisher's unintentional instigation, Clover brutally smashed the sleeping Barry's head with the baseball bat. This may be the sad part of small people, who dare not resist against the power class, but will only harm some innocent and kind people and gain psychological satisfaction. After Clover was arrested, he was still timidly saying, I don't know anything, can I talk to my mother?
The indifference shown by the teammates to Barry under the influence of the rumors in the movie is even more chilling. When Barry was bullied by his roommates, they chose to turn a blind eye. When the superiors came to investigate the rumors, they said some vague words that did not benefit Barry. time exposed. And they are actually just ignorant children who don't know what homosexuality is at all, but just because they are "different", they shut out this group in horror, with the cruelty of mass ignorance, to what happens in The tragedy in front of us was left unchecked. And Barry is pure-hearted and like a child. In fact, when he chose to be with her, he did not consider everything that he would undertake. Facing the pressure that followed, the child who endured and was strong finally burst into tears: "I just want to be happy. Happy, why does it have to be so difficult?" He was going to go to her performance that night, but in order to reduce the pressure of public opinion, he stayed in the barracks, and then that night, his head was broken and lying in a pool of blood, on the bright red pillow was With a little snow-white brain, she sang beautifully moving songs on the stage, sang her longing for him, and sang her love. On the top is dying blue, and her face is bright hope.
Cali came home wearing the laurels of victory, preparing food for Barry and planning a weekend together for the two of them. Soon, she won the award, she was already famous, and would soon be able to save enough money for surgery. Can get married, be together openly... Cali said: "The reason fantasy is cruel is that you start to believe it can really happen." All the good news was shattered by the news of Barry's murder on the TV, Cali did not cry, Instead, he tightly clutched his chest and howled. The dry, hoarse voice was so sad, it didn't look like a human voice could burst out...
The movie is over, but the real Cali is strong. In the rest of her life, she has always encouraged herself to be an independent and strong Soldier's girl. She later organized many social movements with Barry's parents and promoted " The abolition of the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy and became a democracy fighter, soliciting legal rights for gays and lesbians, had far-reaching effects in the United States. Barry never left, he continued to influence the world in another form.
When you wake up the world may have changed But trust in me, I'll never falter or fail Just the smile in your eyes, it can light up the night, the smile in your eyes illuminates the dark night in my heart And your laughter's like wind in my sails. Lean on me, let our hearts beat in time, lean on me , let our hearts fit the leap Feel strength from the hands that have held you so long. Who cares where we go on this rugged old road Who cares where we go on this rugged old road In a world that may say that we're wrong
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