Movies#
Barbie#
Finally had time to go to the cinema to watch it, only to find out that it had already been taken down. I randomly found a less exaggerated resource to watch, aside from the impact of the video quality, this movie was overall quite mediocre. The excessive oiliness of the characters, the lazy attempt to save the Barbie world at the end, and the fact that the director was revealed as the culprit all seemed very lazy. This lady really likes to make feminist movies, but she never really understands what feminism is, which can be understood 😌.
Barry Lyndon / Glory Road / Dr. Strangelove / 2001: A Space Odyssey#
I've always heard about Kubrick but realized that I've only seen A Clockwork Orange, so I decided to catch up. I absolutely love Barry Lyndon, the painting-like quality, the three-hour runtime with a well-developed plot that beautifully tells the story of war, love, and humanity, it's so good. The other movies may seem a bit simplistic now due to their age.
About Me and the Incident of Becoming a Family with a Ghost#
A comedy film playing with elements of homosexuality that was criticized for being offensive to the LGBTQ community, lacking depth in its intentions. While a film with a feminist marketing approach that lacks depth is continuously praised by women, it seems like making a female-centric film nowadays is easy, and people will buy into it.
TV Series#
Zuo Ai Luo Ding#
I read the original work back in elementary school and didn't expect there to be a TV series. After watching it, I was completely impressed by Li Jie's acting, while Fan Bingbing seemed to be absent throughout the show. The early plot was very engaging, but it gradually fell into clichés, and in the end, it was just singing praises, so I gave up on it.
Heaven's Mirror / The Child I Push#
Watched it, very absurd.
Books#
The Beer Murder Case#
Very old-fashioned, the plot seems quite common now.
Caliban and the Witch#
Definitely worth a read... it allows us to better understand the close relationship between modern patriarchy, the rise of nation-states, and the transition from feudalism to capitalism.
It's a way to understand the origin of the phrase "burn the witch" in the context of women's rights in China. However, it seems like the readers of this book missed the main point. The main theory in the book is about the development of capitalism leading to the exploitation of the labor of lower-class women by lower-class men. This only proves that women did lose out in the distribution of resources under capitalism, and as the losing party, they should strive to gain their rights instead of asking the beneficiaries to give up their gains. But it seems like the so-called feminist groups in China didn't understand this, and only learned the phrase "burn the witch"!
Goodbye, Eri#
A very short manga, I don't like short stories, didn't get it at all.
Don Quixote#
Took me three months to finally finish it, the second part felt like it was just filling up space, the first part was more interesting. However, what's a bit puzzling is that the windmill giant, which actually only takes up two or three pages in the original work, is always mentioned whenever Don Quixote is brought up. This kind of misunderstanding of the plot is quite common, making me wonder if some people have only read the first few pages. Personally, I prefer the little stories in the book, they are very interesting.