At the Ching Ming file, "My Sister" has become a dark horse at the box office, and the cumulative box office has exceeded 400 million yuan in 5 days.
The movie's popularity is firstly because it has hit the survival pain points of many sisters and women.
The film reveals a common dilemma for women, that is, the identities of "mother", "wife", and "sister" are greater than women themselves.
Many women live in various identities all their lives, but their personal will, choices, and desires have been deprived of them.
Sister Enron’s experience reproduces the difficult experience of a woman who grew up in a patriarchal family.
She is bound by the traditional disciplines such as "women are not as good as men", "women don't have to read too many books", and "women must pay for men".
But as a new generation of women who have received higher education and awakened their gender consciousness, they reject such disciplines and even break with their families.
After working, she has been devoting herself to postgraduate entrance examinations. She wants to go to Beijing. She wants to be a doctor. She wants to live for her dream.
An Ran set a correct example for the "sisters": economically independent and spiritually independent, women can run away bravely.
The film did not give a clear answer as to whether or not to support the younger brother, but left an open ending.
An Ran, who had planned to send her younger brother up for adoption, and was about to sign an agreement not to deal with her younger brother, did not sign, she took her younger brother's hand and ran out of the adopter's house.
It was this open ending that "disrupted" the field of public opinion.
If An Ran did not support her younger brother, she would still be "independent" and "self".
But no matter from the point of view of law or reason, An Ran's support of her younger brother does not mean that she is "non-feminist".
But the relationship between men and women is not a relationship of "life and death" or "the east wind overwhelms the west wind", nor does it mean that once a woman pays for a man, it will be a "loss" for a woman, or a woman will be "exploited."
We must believe in family affection and in the existence of love.
Women's "self" does not mean that they are selfish and only love themselves. On the contrary, they are able to accept love while being spiritually independent, and they are willing to embrace a gentle attitude towards the world. This is the truly powerful self.
"Self" does not mean "selfish", and "giving" does not mean "exploited".
The most urgent task is to help more women free themselves from the repressive mechanism, rather than the mutual consumption of different opinions among women.
Li Yu (media person)