For war movies, the three common themes we see are nothing more than "Vietnam, the Middle East , and Jews". These are the main narrative subjects of Hollywood , and they are also the mainstream values accepted by the broad audience in war movies. It even became politically correct in war movies for a time. However, any film genre is not just uniform in its expression. When it regards cookie-cutter expression as the only correct theme, then the demise of this movie genre is not far away.
Therefore, with this in mind, today I would like to recommend a movie "The Story of a Woman" to you. This film is a French film. What we can see is whether the French perspective on war should continue the above theme, or open up a new theme.
"A Woman's Affair" tells the story of a woman who was in embarrassment in life because her husband participated in World War II . Because the woman had to take care of her children and had little education, she had to live frugally and did not see any news about the future. By chance, a woman discovers something that can turn her life around: helping pregnant women have abortions. During World War II, abortion was prohibited in France, but few pregnant women were willing to keep their children. As a result, women ushered in "business opportunities."
The continuous success was the beginning for women to gain a certain economic status. At this moment, the husband came back from the battlefield, but the woman was no longer the weak woman who obeyed her husband's orders. She began to become stronger, and her sense of independence became stronger and stronger. Eventually she cheated. After the affair, the woman continued her career and continued to make more money, but all this was interrupted by her husband.
The angry husband did not immediately expose his wife, but chose to report the act. The woman was taken away and sentenced to death. In prison, she had been unwilling to accept such a thing. Because there is no precedent in modern French history for sentencing a woman to death, but after the verdict, the woman still lost her life. The woman who was in prison thought deeply about it. War destroys the life after adulthood. She is just driving away her unborn child. It is far less cruel than war. Why should she be imprisoned? However, this question remained unanswered until death.
"The Story of Women" opens up a new perspective to discuss with the audience, what is the essence of war? It also discusses the morbid mood that permeated French society during World War II. A woman is a weak woman, but she has to survive in an alternative way in the face of the cold life. The man who came back from the battlefield was supposed to support his life, but in fact he became a burden to the family.
Why is the whole movie set like this? We can take a look at what the French social situation was like at that time. As the German army advanced, France basically chose to surrender without any resistance. This was indeed a great shock to the French people. Because of the surrender, the French were able to survive, but the blood of the entire country was taken away alive, and the men of this country were castrated alive. The castrated man is incomplete, so the male characters presented in this film are basically incomplete. Only at this time can women rise rapidly and become the backbone of society.
The husband in this film needs to rely on his wife in order to survive better. Even his wife's lover is also a kind of dependence on his wife. This unintentionally improves the wife's social status, and the basis of this improvement in social status is that the wife has gained a certain amount of money. In fact, it depends on the fact that women are considered normal in this country, because men have been castrated, and this country has been castrated.
At this time, the nature and hypocrisy of the war were clearly revealed. What women do is not much different from war. In fact, in comparison, women's actions are far less cruel than war. However, the pseudo-regime in France at that time was not willing to listen to a woman's excuse, and was not willing to face up to its own cowardice in the war. Instead, it used more punishment than before on this woman. This point of righteousness went beyond the social atmosphere of the time.
If the French puppet regime can be so bloody on the battlefield, then even if the German army occupied Paris, there was no way for France to completely surrender. People who are completely weak will definitely keep their tough side at home. The woman's husband is a good proof of this, and the pseudo-regime of the country where the woman lives is an even better proof. They often do not need to pay special attention to the external war, but they are overly concerned about the internal social stability.
If abortion is a way to kill life, then war is the cruelest continuation of this method. Abortion kills unborn life, while war destroys a real man who has completed character shaping and ability development. If the input-output ratio is divided, then the life killed by war is much more expensive than the cost of abortion?
But what about reality? The lives lost in the war did not affect the lives of the pseudo-regimes in the rear, but people who simply had abortions were executed on an unprecedented crime. It's an absurd sight, and it's also the most powerful indictment of war. What kind of soul was born under the French puppet regime at that time? Can a puppet talk to you about human nature?
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