There's a lot of news happening this August .
First , the Leqing girl was brutally murdered by the hitchhiker driver, but the lazy and perfunctory handling of the hitchhiker driver and customer service staff who had been complained many times but no one handled it became the culprit behind the girl’s murder.
Then came the suicide of the pediatrician . When a 13-year-old underage becomes the basis for evading sanctions or even verbal violence , what is fair and natural?
Whether it is the 20-year-old Leqing girl or the married pediatrician. I believe they used to be full of kindness and hope in this world, and they also believed in the beauty of this society.
They are all female classmates who still have dreams!
For thousands of years, women have always been a vulnerable group. In feudal society, these so-called "female virtues" such as "three obedience and four virtues" have become inferior means for those in power in the old society to oppress women.
In what is called a new era, the world is advocating equality between men and women, women's rights, and women's liberation;
Countless female compatriots who have been bullied and tortured around the world have been saved from dire straits.
However , in some corners where the light cannot shine, and even in the dirty hearts of some scumbags, the disgusting and contemptible behaviors and thoughts are still deeply rooted.
India. A country with a large religion and a large population is also one of the countries with the slowest development of women's rights .
Even with the rapid development of the information age, many Indian men still regard women as reproductive tools, women's rights are deprived, and women's thoughts are suppressed.
Under the leadership of many conscientious public figures in India such as Armi Khan , films such as "Wrestle, Dad", "Mystery Superstar", "Padman", "Toilet Hero" and other films showed the ugly side of Indian society to a global audience.
Movies such as "Mystery Superstar" and "Wrestle, Dad" only show the discrimination against Indian women, and they are relatively restrained, and do not bring real suffering and darkness to the audience.
And this "Hot", in the true sense, unabashedly shows everyone the ugliest side of an isolated rural environment and Indian society.
This is a movie that boldly rips the black veil and injects the bright light into hell!
In that mountain village, as soon as any girl is born, it is directly regarded as a commodity by the family, and if she is raised at will until she is thirteen or fourteen years old , she will be sold as a commodity to the boys in the village who are almost the same age.
The grades who should be studying in school and dreaming every day have become the wives of their peers and the reproductive tools of that society.
Because in India, girls are not worthy of education. Therefore, the general situation is: the boy is still in middle school, and the family starts to spend money to buy him a wife; the wife has no culture and can only be humiliated and despised in her husband's house; after a few years, there is a child, and so on from generation to generation The cycle goes on...
At the beginning of the film, it simply and directly shows a scene that makes people feel depressed and angry :
Because the husband found a mistress, and even fled with his mistress in front of her, the poor man finally came to her parents ' house , and she wanted to leave that hell.
She was raped by all the male relatives of her husband's family (including her husband's father and younger brother, etc.) and was pregnant with an unknown animal child, and was forced to have an abortion (not the kind that went to the hospital);
I wanted to go back to my mother's home to get blessings, but I was reprimanded by all the blood relatives in desperation, and was forcibly sent back to that hell.
From this scene, the whole movie sets the tone.
The movie has three protagonists, three good sisters, and three poor women :
The No. 1 heroine, Rani , got married at the age of 14 or 15. Her husband liked whoring prostitutes and often domestic violence. Fortunately, her husband died when she was young. Since then, she has become a widow without any emotional nourishment. Apart from taking care of her sick mother-in-law In addition, the biggest thing is to buy a daughter-in-law for his son, who can share the labor for her.
The second heroine, La Qiao , has been married for many years and has not been pregnant. Her husband beats and scolds her frequently because of this, and brings other women home. She dare not say anything and can only endure it silently.
The two sisters have been together since childhood, chatting freely about their fantasies and stories.
When the family forgets life, two people will have real happiness!
The third heroine, Bikili , is the oiran of the wandering dance troupe, and she also manages the flesh business. The boss treats his body as a cash cow, and other men look down on her while lusting after her.
However, due to her years of performances and flesh business, it was already the past, and she was finally abandoned by the boss and chose a younger woman to be the new oiran.
When the third heroine, Bickley, followed the dance troupe back to her hometown, the three sisters met again.
The three good sisters who hadn't seen each other for many years had a really happy time. They jumped up and down like they were children, said things that they would not dare to say, no longer suppressed their desires, and discussed their own affairs unscrupulously. dream.
If they follow the normal process, after the three of them are happy for a while, they will return to their own lives, and spend their lives in depression and despair.
Then there is only boundless darkness, and the light will never come!
Rani managed to buy a fourteen- or fifteen-year-old girl, Zhan Qi , as his daughter-in-law for his son-in-law. She turned a deaf ear to the girl's cry and cry for help on the wedding night; she kept silent about the domestic violence suffered by her best friend La Qiao .
Because her mother-in-law, who she has been taking care of, lying in bed, told her: everything will be fine!
Everything will be fine when my husband is cold to me!
When the husband goes out to prostitutes, everything will be fine!
When the husband drank to death, everything was going to be fine!
Fifteen years have passed, when she, when "them" kept forcing herself to believe this.
Nothing has changed, nothing has gotten better.
At that moment, Rani really thought of leaving .
La Qiao , who always thought she was infertile and silently endured beatings and reprimands from her husband .
With guilt and subconscious resignation from childhood to adulthood , she could only secretly blame her body.
Only one day, she accidentally discovered that it was her husband who couldn't , and her body was completely capable of pregnancy; she realized that what she had endured for so many years was just a fig leaf for the so-called face of the devil .
She was crazy and released. She abused her husband. For the first time in so many years, she fought back. Without any guilt, she must leave that devil !
La Qiao, also leave!
When a man kneels at her feet and kisses her feet, thanking her. La Qiao couldn't help crying.
How much pain has she endured to make others treat her a little bit better, and she feels that she is not worthy!
On the day of the festival, they finally picked up the torches and went to the devil; in a moment, their tragic fate suddenly disappeared, they are the embodiment of women's rights, they are gods!
Speaking of which, many will find the film too dirty and too dark.
But after winter comes spring, and after darkness comes light. If you don't endure the pain and spread the abscess, it will only slowly deteriorate, and it will never end!
In fact, there are also many scenes that are touching, and not all male characters are useless:
The man who is gentle in sex and knows how to please women;
The man who persevered and traveled long distances for the girl he liked;
The couple who provided employment opportunities to women in the village in order to improve the lives of the villagers;
It's the daybreak before dawn!
It's the first ray of sunshine into the darkness!
May the equality of men and women be truly achieved in all parts of the world in a few years, and the rights and interests of women all over the world will be guaranteed .
May all beasts die without a place to be buried! ! !
The road ahead is difficult, for mutual encouragement!
First published on WeChat public account: Aftershocks of Light and Shadow, welcome your attention! ! !
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