Li Yinhe of film review ｜ talks " my elder sister " : Announce of social ethics and its transition

Right " my elder sister " a sociological analysis

Civil / Li Yinhe

" my elder sister " told a good story to us, not only fair and reasonable, and be full of be concerned about, fascinating. Sister younger brother two from unfamiliar, diaphragmatic, mutual cold-shoulder each other to communicate, evolve into process clarity, with meticulous care, to finally it is cent or the choice juncture that close, make a person shed silent tears unexpectedly. Open mode ending is excellent brushstroke more, together of thoughts or recollections flashing across one's mind making a person, cannot help doing sth.

The essential technique that wonderful story clue and round figure figure revealed this successful movie admittedly is quite deep, the deep degree of problem of story and the social ethics that figure relationship backside announces, society just is this film not only fascinating and fetching thoughtful original part.

Film around move heroine elder sister is to go after the hard choice that individual enterprise develops or brings up young younger brother to spread out stage by stage after all, the logic of backside is the individual standard that in Chinese modernization place of the people in the process faces viewpoint of value, philosophy is right traditional family is standard of viewpoint of value, philosophy intense bump.

According to traditional domestic idea, in parents double below the circumstance that die, can have earned money the grown elder sister that raises the home ought to carry a responsibility that brings up young younger brother of course, also ought not to have other think of a way and choice impossibly, because the viewpoint of value of domestic standard asks the individual mixes domestic value,close affection is placed in the first, place the be fond of of the individual's value, individual and self-fulfilment in the 2nd. In this kind sudden condition falls, the elder sister's exclusive and right choice is the school work of sacrificial individual, career, bring up a little brother heart and soul grown adult.

However, because modern course brought the thinking logic of sort of new viewpoint of value and individual standard, make the elder sister's psychology is immersed in intense conflict. Viewpoint of value of alleged individual standard places the individual's self-fulfilment in namely the first, place domestic value and close condition in the 2nd. Then elder sister otherwise should be value of individual of domestic responsibility sacrifice to become the difficult problem of type of a Hamlet: Be to be born to still die? Be cent still closes? It is the life value that pursues an individual, still sacrifice to kiss affection individual? Film mixes character park ethics affective is acuteness in the circumstances of conflict, fetching and thoughtful.

The another society psychology that film announces is special the distinguishing feature that contains Chinese culture, namely in people heart heavy male light female. Film depicted parents to coerce to want a boy the elder sister pretends deformity lays 2 embryoes target with getting, allude the opportunity that once wanted to make an accident give birth to a son in order to get even, parents ever still filled volunteer finish daughter to miss the dream that becomes a doctor through changing secretly. This kind is weighed male light female practice not only bristle with anger making a person, and acting acting according to legend: The aunt ever also was help sb to fulfill his wishes her little brother (the father of the hero) sacrificed oneself school work and career, endure all kinds of hardships, waste time is mixed at expecting under oneself far the life of talent.

Because come to China thousands of years,be the local society of male authority all the time, girl morning and evening is the person of others home, the boy just is to send a person that accepts era, it is main labour force of the family, it is the support object of parental provide for the aged, this was formed weigh absolutely in the family male light female, arrive from resource of nutrition, education, medical treatment like rate, all tilts to the son, what give birth to even daughter-in-law is the boy or girl the position in can affecting her to be in the home. Preference of this kind of sexual distinction meets thorough marrow is in psychology in Chinese company.

At this late hour, still exist to weigh in great quantities socially male light female circumstance: Go to school for the son when the home is poor do not go to school for the daughter, let a daughter work earn money side son marries son's wife, be like the girl natural it is second-class citizen, be the boy to make sacrifice is perfectly justified. Film announced to be in the process of modern, urbanization, problem of the character equality of the girl and boy, principle of equal opportunity for all has begun large-scale enter social life, formed powerful concussion to traditional sexual order, also constituted formidable challenge to traditional social psychology.

Current, traditional male honour the sexual order of female low is occurrent profound change, the new order with an equal character of modern male and female is being formed. Film announced for us through a series of dramatic conflict this profound change that produces on Chinese earth.

There still is quite biting brushstroke to make at the same time to two afore-mentioned proposition in film acrimony critically: The pregnant woman of the eclampsia of a pregnancy that the elder sister attends, do not listen to an advice to must take a risk to be born the child, not only family advocates so, him pregnant woman also agrees with such doing. The family that couplet thinks of creed of a few male authority is serious can protect circumstance to fall only in maternal child, can choose not to protect a mother to protect the child actually, the logic of backside is the burning incense that the child is this family, importance platoon of the child is before the mother, can abandon a mother to protect the child so.

This is a cruel sort, fine think of extremely fear: Keep a mother, the child died to return but second birth, can you go dead to protect the child to let a mother how? This kind of cruel choice can make clear only, the consciousness in people or subconscious in the center, family (the child) than the individual (mother) important; The man is more principal than the woman. No matter the woman serves as it is individual, more important to be inferior to family and child as the mother. This is the double discrimination that traditional Chinese woman place gets. Lamentable is, a lot of women had been in imperceptible in plant this the individual is inferior to a family the viewpoint of value that important, woman is inferior to him melt into inside the man's main idea, is that him pregnant woman so of the choice?

Commendable is, film still took us to approach a few peculiar town lives and folk-custom. Place mahjong desk to receive visitor in mortuary activity for instance, see unimaginably queer, cannot help laughing making a person. This kind of folk-custom is not bad, just have some of detail that does not belong to category of general human nature, the person of the culture outside may making understands hard, for avoid family planning for instance the regulation lets a daughter pretend deformity lays 2 embryoes target with obtaining such thing, the person that foreign language turns makes clear the logic of this backside very hard. Of course to Chinese audience, it is devoid and difficult that understanding rises.

Altogether, look from the angle of average viewer, " my elder sister " it is a movie that makes moving heart very good-lookingly, deeply; Look from sociological angle, over the social reality base that it also wants to be fact of Yu Jian of a base oneself upon, announce of social ethics and its transitional profundity make.

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