A "Meng Hua Lu" made "rescuing Feng Chen" a hot topic. This year, India released a high-scoring movie "Gangubai Katiawadi", which tells the story of "rescuing a prostitute".

's " Meng Hua Lu " made "rescuing Feng Chen" a hot topic. Can

be saved? This issue may be difficult to discuss more deeply with Zhao Paner and Gu Qianfan. After all, this is a two-way costume idol drama.

But if this trend falls into the largest red light district in India, it will be a different style.

This year, India released a high-scoring movie "Gangubai Katyawadi", which tells the story of "rescuing a prostitute".

Here, any girl may suddenly fall into the darkest moment of life. The girl in the

shot was only 14 years old. She had a nose ring nailed on inexplicably, which meant that she was married.

But it was not her husband who was waiting for her, but her client. The husband sold her without even looking at her.

Seeing her at a loss, the madam and the prostitutes laughed at her: "Shut your mouth and open your legs."

The moment she saw the client, the girl finally realized what was going on. She desperately called for help, begging the client to let her go home, but this only made the client more excited.

The girl fell into prostitution and could never get over again.

In India, in the red light district of Mumbai, this kind of scene happens every day, and every girl's story is similar.

They need a heroic figure to save them from fire and water. This figure is the protagonist of the film-Gangu (Bai, an honorific title for a person with status).

The film is adapted from real events. In real life, Gangu is a legend. She turned from a prostitute to the queen of the Mumbai mafia and fought for women's rights throughout her life.

But unfortunately, this is not a happy drama, but a tragedy.

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No girl can successfully escape from the red light district.

Even if they escape by chance and go through all kinds of hardships to return to their parents, their families will kill them in public to keep the family tradition clean.

Gan Guyuan was born into a prominent family. His father was a lawyer and he grew up in a privileged environment.

(Gangu’s prototype)

Gangu has a dream of becoming a star. Her husband encourages her to pack her valuable jewelry, and they go to Mumbai to pursue their dream.

Before leaving, Gangu asked him: "You love me, right? Tell me."

The man nodded.

The next day, he sold Gangu to a brothel for 1,000 rupees (about 85 yuan).

Gangu was locked up in a small dark room. Her resistance was met with severe beatings by the madam. She once went on a hunger strike with the intention of committing suicide, but she knew that no one would care about her death here.

Like many girls, Gangu finally gave in. She stood on the street wearing heavy makeup. The prostitutes played with her body and taught her the postures to seduce men, but she just swayed numbly.

Soon she attracted her first customer. When the madam handed her the tip, she burned it immediately. The madam was surprised and asked her what she was doing. She said that she was cremating her former self.

Unlike those girls from lower-class backgrounds, Gangu is well-educated and her father is a lawyer. She has realized the importance of "human rights" early on.

With her outstanding beauty, Gangu became the number one in the brothel. After making a lot of money, she vowed to buy this brothel within 5 years.

However, this idea is very naive. It is easy for the madam to fix her.

One day at 4 o'clock in the morning, Gangu was woken up by the madam to pick up the customer. The other party offered him double the price.

When the prostitute put the money and gun in front of Gangu, she knew that this man was a devil. There were screams and screams in the room, but the madam did not open the door or call the police.

After the cruel ravage, the beautiful and beautiful Gangu became like this:

There were shocking scars on her belly, but these are all visible. Invisible scars are in the heart of every prostitute, and they remain forever. Unable to heal.

However, when Gangu was sent to the hospital, she could only be pushed into a messy storage room. Prostitutes were not qualified to enjoy ordinary people's wards. The madam only said lightly:

"This is how our industry is, sometimes Encountering this kind of monster is just like when a soldier goes to the battlefield and is in danger of being shot. "

Stories like this are staged every day in the red light district. The traders and clients are full of dirty desires, but they don't need to do this. No matter what the price is, these innocent girls will bear the brunt of everything.

However, the most suffocating thing in the film is not the obvious violence, but the rotten humanity behind a line.

Gangu's best friend passed away. A group of good sisters bid farewell to her body. Gangu stood alone at the door holding the child she left behind.

After a while, Gangu ordered: "Tie her legs tighter. Indian men cannot be trusted, even if the woman has become a corpse."

What exactly had she suffered to make her say this?

When he thought about it carefully, he felt that there was a dark wind around him.

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The famous Japanese feminist researcher Chizuru Ueno once said:

"If women don't express their inner anger and make waves, nothing will change."

But most women don't know how. Anger, anger requires great courage and courage.

Gangu, who was stabbed by a knife, was courageous and knowledgeable. The perpetrator was a gang member. From the words of his sisters, Gangu knew that although their boss had done a lot of murder, smuggling, gambling and drug trafficking, he would also While committing crimes, help people get justice, because gang bosses also have to pay attention to the gang's reputation.

In front of the boss, Gangu opened his clothes and exposed the scar. The boss promised to give her a treatment fee, but Gangu refused. What she wanted was not money, but justice.

This bravery made Boss Hei admire her with admiration and he recognized her as his sister from then on.

Seeing the villain fall in front of him with blood on his face, Gangu tasted the taste of victory after brave resistance for the first time.

With the protection of the gang, Gangu quickly dominated the red light district. After the death of the madam, she became the new madam with the support of her sisters.

She gave the prostitutes the right to choose. Those who wanted to leave, she taught them skills and asked them to change their lives again;

Those who chose to stay, she opened bank accounts for them, gave them days off, and encouraged them to go. Watching movies allows them to enjoy the benefits that ordinary girls should have. Even when working, she will not force them to pick up clients, nor will any sister be abused by clients.

She will adopt children born by prostitutes and work hard to fight for their right to education, because even if only one girl finds a decent job such as a lawyer or a doctor in the future, one girl will escape her fate.

But she is a prostitute after all. Even if she wears expensive clothes and enjoys the treatment of a queen, she is still looked down upon by others. The only thing that can change her status is to join politics.

So she devoted herself to running for district mayor. She could only succeed but could not fail because behind her were more than 4,000 prostitutes waiting for her to rescue them.

Fortunately, she succeeded, which was not only a personal victory for her, but also a victory for the entire prostitute community and even Indian women.

There is a popular saying in the past two years: Girls help girls, but if you think about it carefully, this is such a hopeless thing.

The world imposes too much weight on women, from society, tradition, patriarchy, and even from women themselves.

Let alone India, and jump out of the current context, let’s look at the stories that many of us are experiencing:

How many girls are being urged to get married by their seven aunts and eight aunts, even if these aunts’ own marriages are in a mess? But they still hope that their descendants will follow the same path;

How many mothers themselves are "little brother-supporting demons". They are well aware of the trauma left by favoring sons over daughters, but once they have children, many of them Will she still choose to sacrifice her daughter to fulfill her son?

How many mothers, after learning that their daughter’s husband cheated, advised their daughters to “be patient for the sake of the child. Men are all the same, just wait until he gets over it.”;

In such an environment In "Girls help girls", Girls help girls are destined to be only the tragic actions of a few people who care about each other.

Maybe Gangu's victory is worthy of cheering, but I'm sorry, I can't cheer.

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The girl in the cage is the daughter of a prostitute.

The mother didn't want her to follow her own path, but she couldn't give her good protection, so she could only lock her in a cage like an animal.

The film beautifies this scene after all. In reality, many prostitutes are indeed locked in cages, but it is a dark place, like a purgatory on earth.

Here, talking about human rights is a big joke.

At the end of the film, Gangu met the Deputy Prime Minister, and she made a shocking proposal: legalizing prostitution.

In her vision, prostitution should become a recognized profession, and prostitutes should be like girls in other industries and not always be treated inhumanely.

There is no doubt that her proposal was rejected, but when she returned to the red light district, she still received praise from everyone, because the sisters knew that Gangu had been fighting for them all his life.

Maybe Gangu's starting point was good, or in other words, it was the most beneficial choice for a prostitute in her environment, but this suggestion was really not good.

This is not only an issue in India, but also an issue in the world.

If prostitution is legalized, prostitutes will be respected, and the red light district will be free from discrimination like other office districts?

is absolutely impossible. This is not just a sexual issue, but also a series of issues such as female trafficking, drug dealing, disease transmission, gambling, murder, and abuse.

In 2017, the United Nations released a "Human Trafficking Task Force Report". Among the 13,000 women investigated, more than 80% were forced to engage in sexual services against their will.

Are the other 20% voluntary? I don’t think so. Many people are “voluntary”.

When someone's surrogacy was revealed before, people yelled that it was "uterus trading". Similarly, prostitution is tantamount to "vagina trading."

Under the severe punishment of the law, these transactions are carried out secretly. After legalization, these will only become more rampant - in the name of legality.

Can you imagine a woman standing naked in front of you, priced by the market?

How much is a face worth, how much is a body worth, how much is temperament worth, how much is age, how much is a virginity...

IMHO, this is not as good as a pig, they are slaughtered and all are gone, and the body is on the shelf for you to choose from, but People are different.

As Gangu mocked:

"It seems that we have more dignity than you. Once you sell your dignity, it disappears. However, we sell our dignity every night, and it seems that it will never be used up."

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on At the end of the month, India's Supreme Court officially declared prostitution legal. The news of

seems like a joke, whether it is legal or not, they have been doing it for so many years.

I don’t know if the deceased Gangu would be happy. In short, except for the third brother who is ecstatic, netizens from other countries are quite speechless.

It can not only increase the country's GDP, but also provide a fig leaf for decent people to engage in prostitution, but for prostitutes, their lives will not change because of this. They are still bought and sold, tortured and killed, and cast aside.

In the final analysis, whether it is legal or not is just the rhetoric of politicians. As long as women have a low status in society, they can be defined and dealt with at will.

When I was writing this article, the issue of canceling abortion rights in the United States refreshed everyone's perspective. This is another issue about women and their bodies.

It is about religion, politics, and the life of babies, but not about women themselves.

Just after Gangu was elected as the district chief, she once said to the girls with high spirits:

"We must live with dignity and never be afraid of anyone!"

More than half a century has passed, and the world is not better. Some, even more people they are afraid of...

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