? Brief introduction of film
The story took place in the late 1990s. In order to make money as soon as possible, Bai Xuemei, a newly graduated female college student, listened to a trafficker who pretended to be a pharmaceutical purchasing company and followed them to a remote mountain village in northwest China to purchase Chinese medicine. As a result, she was stunned and sold to local farmers Huang Degui and Bai Xuemei, begging them to let her go. But the family spent 7000 yuan to marry a wife, and even decided that this woman was one of their own, whether she was alive or dead.
The story behind is no different from the woman who was trafficked to the village before. Bai Xuemei tried to escape, but was forbidden. She went on a hunger strike and committed suicide, and tried her best to inform the outside world. In this process, she fled back, was beaten, raped, and finally got pregnant and gave birth ... Repeated failures did not make Bai Xuemei willing to accept this fate like other women, even if it was to leave here and sell her body. As a result, she even fled to the mountain car and was caught back. Bai Xuemei gradually.
Fortunately, with the help of a student, Bai Xuemei's father finally found him, but he didn't expect that even with the police, Bai Xuemei could not be saved. Finally, under the intense pull of both sides, Bai Xuemei desperately picked up a kitchen knife and cut it at her "husband".
The Woman Assimilated by Ignorant Thoughts in Blind Mountain
Bai Xuemei's "mother-in-law" only cares about whether the daughter-in-law she bought with 7,000 yuan can carry on the family line, and even helps her son rape her daughter-in-law with her husband. Persuade Bai Xuemei again and again, anyway, things have been like this, women will go through this sooner or later, and whoever they marry will not marry. Afraid of Bai Xuemei's escape, she watched day and night. She has experienced everything, but she has no sympathy. It's like being completely assimilated by these ignorant and backward patriarchal consciousness, which encourages those ignorant and backward thoughts.
Like Simon? Beauvoir pointed out in The Second Sex that there are symmetrical differences between men and women in women's situation and status. Throughout the ages, "woman" has been reduced to the object of men, and "woman" has been regarded as the "other" of men. She has been deprived of her own subjective rights and her own right to act, and can only be in a "secondary" position in society. The disadvantage of women is not naturally formed, and this division is the product of the patriarchal system of some willing people, which is specially used to consolidate the service of male power.
Zheng Xiaolan and Cheng Chunlan, who were also kidnapped, took a baby to persuade Bai Xuemei to forget about it. There is nothing wrong with staying here. The woman who plays Zheng Xiaolan was deceived to that village in reality. She is only 20 years old and is already the mother of two children.
According to director Li Yang, "We only knew it when we were filming. She came to the crew every day and was asked to act. Her husband didn't want to hit her, so he threatened: If you hit me again, I'll go with the crew! My husband is afraid to call again. Later, I told the assistant director to let him play a role. Anyway, it is slack farming, and the crew manages three meals a day, and even the children she holds give a sum of money. " ?
In the movie, Zheng Xiaolan finally jumped out of the police car that took them out of the mountain for her children and chose to stay in this poor and ignorant mountain village. How can her children receive a good education in this law-blind and illiterate mountainous area where boys are preferred to girls? They will still be poor in the future, and they will still be unable to get married and have children through normal channels. Seriously, she is likely to become a woman like Bai Xuemei's "mother-in-law" in the future.
Bai Xuemei in the movie never wanted to stay. Escape is her only obsession and the core of the whole movie. Evil in the mountains and pedantic and backward thoughts everywhere are also the biggest reasons for Bai Xuemei's psychological transformation.
After being raped by Huang Degui for the first time as a wife, the traditional concept of losing her virginity made her choose to commit suicide by cutting her wrists. Cutting off your long hair marks that innocence is no longer in your heart and you can see the reality thoroughly; After three escapes, she wanted to rely on other men because she was penniless, but she was cheated again, which made her thoroughly understand that the only way to save herself was to rely on herself. In order to escape, she would rather dedicate her virginity to the owner of a small shop, but she knew it was only a helpless move. Even under house arrest, Bai Xuemei still didn't give up studying. Compared with the other two abducted women who are content with the status quo and have already resigned, Bai Xuemei is more like a woman with modern new ideas.
? Director Li Yang once explained the word "blindness". He said: "Being blind is not the same as being blind ..... and it is derived from turning a blind eye to conscience and external cruelty." ?
The blindness of the blind mountain lies in the indifference of the villagers and the selfishness of the blind. Bai Xuemei failed again and again, and finally she had to save herself. People around her chose to turn a blind eye and even colluded to stop her from running away. The director of the village Committee turned a deaf ear to Bai Xuemei's request for help; Bai Xuemei handed out a letter of help hopefully, but the postman handed it to her "husband"; The villagers praised the "wife" Huang Degui bought. Even if Xue Xuemei fled to the world beyond the mountain, the driver refused to drive her for the first time because of the three-yuan fare, so she was caught back. The second time, she got the fare by selling her body, but because the "husband" and his party stood outside the car door, although she cried and begged the driver not to open the door, the driver, conductor and other passengers turned a blind eye and looked at Bai Xuemei without sympathy.
The blindness of villagers in mountainous areas is a barbaric sin. They think it is natural to help their own people rob their "daughter-in-law". This is their self-righteous established rule, completely ignoring external moral and legal cognition. "turning a blind eye" outside the mountain is a more indifferent and terrible attitude. Obviously, they have seen this kind of thing a lot, but what does this have to do with them? This kind of "turning a blind eye" not only played the role of accomplice, but also deepened the villagers' evil to this convention. The "blindness" in these people's hearts is indifference to the crime of abducting and selling women and moral decay.
In Blind Mountain, everything that happened to the heroine Xue was exactly the same as what the abducted women said in social news reports at that time. Director Li Yang only presented these things to the audience inside and outside the abduction incident, otherwise he wouldn't pay attention to them with an article the size of a tofu block. After all, such news is endless, and we have long been accustomed to it, but we have never taken it to heart.
In recent years, why are there so many incidents of abducting and selling women?
In the early 1980s, due to the criminal policy of "strike hard", the crime of human trafficking decreased. By the early 1990s, the uneven development in some local areas was very serious, which led to the widening gap between the rich and the poor in social life, especially the poor living conditions in the western region and the poor mountainous areas in the central and eastern regions, which made women in these areas prefer to marry far away and even be trafficked to areas with good economic conditions. Some families can't raise their children because of poverty, so they can only sell their children to rich families. ?
Coupled with the backward feudal ideology in many areas, there was a scene in which villagers in Blind Mountain salvaged the bodies of abandoned baby girls in the water. Through dialogue, we can see the discrimination against women in rural areas. These unequal concepts lead to an imbalance in the proportion of men and women. It is precisely because of this custom that many criminals began to engage in human trafficking, which led to a sharp increase in the number of crimes of abducting and selling women.
? Around the1990s, a large number of kidnapping and trafficking incidents occurred. In a few official data, only from 199 1 to 1995, 80,000 abducted women were rescued. ?
The process of rescuing these women filmed in the blind mountain is so difficult that villagers in backward areas not only turn a blind eye to the crime of human trafficking, but even participate in it. Even if these women are rescued, they will be discriminated against by people around them because of their backward ideas at that time, which will undoubtedly cause secondary harm to the victims, let alone new marriages. ?
According to WHO data, China is one of the few countries in the world where the suicide rate of women is higher than that of men, and pesticide swallowing was once the most common suicide option in rural areas.
In recent years, the target of trafficking has changed.
With the popularization of laws, the improvement of women's awareness of self-protection and the increase of the cost of family crimes, in recent years, these criminal means of abducting and selling women have changed, from abducting and selling normal women to abducting and selling women with mental retardation. Due to the significant differences in their own intellectual abilities, it is difficult for these mentally retarded women to integrate into normal social life and safeguard their rights and interests. These criminals usually induce various criminal acts, such as roadside abduction, fraud abduction, abduction after abandonment, etc., which leads to a very high rate of criminal infringement of these women with physical or mental defects.
? According to research, from 20 1 1 to 20 13, the number of cases of abducting and selling women in China showed an obvious upward trend. Among them, the crime of abducting and selling women showed an obvious downward trend in 20 13 years, which was related to the increasing crackdown on such crimes in China in recent years. ? From the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s, a large number of Vietnamese women were sold to farmers in the border areas of Guangxi as wives. By the end of 1990s, those criminals trafficked Vietnamese women to the mainland by various illegal means on the grounds of references or job hunting, forming an illegal "channel". Through this "channel", a large number of Vietnamese women have been trafficked to more than ten provinces (regions) such as Guangdong, Yunnan, Shandong, Shanxi, Hebei, Hunan, Hubei and Zhejiang. From abducting and selling domestic women to abducting and selling Vietnamese women, the logic behind it is nothing more than solving the problem of getting married and having children for older men in poor rural areas of China. Because the proportion of marriageable men and women in rural areas is seriously unbalanced, finding wives from relatively poor neighboring countries such as Vietnam, Myanmar and Cambodia has become the first choice for these rural leftover men to solve their marriage problems.
The criminal means of abducting and selling women has gradually evolved into a gray industrial chain.
? Driven by huge profits, transnational trafficking in women in China-Vietnam border areas is increasingly rampant. By the second half of 20 18, the police of Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos, Viet Nam and Thailand, including China, had jointly attacked, cracked 634 cases of transnational trafficking, arrested 30 suspects1/kloc-0, and rescued 38 trafficked foreign women 165438. According to a report on June 2 1 News Network 20 19, the Ministry of Public Security of China recently cracked a number of transnational trafficking cases.
In the same year, Dongming County, Heze City, Shandong Province destroyed a number of foreign-related matchmaking agencies. The press release said: "In recent years, the number of foreign brides in this county has gradually increased, especially in rural areas. Large and small transnational matchmaking agencies have sprung up like mushrooms after rain. China, Pakistan, China and Vietnam and other so-called transnational matchmaking agencies openly print, hang banners, distribute various advertising pages, and even engage in various social activities such as volcano videos, Aauto Quicker APP, and mobile phone WeChat groups.
? These profit-making foreign-related matchmaking agencies and individuals take unmarried young men in rural areas as the main publicity targets, use various information channels to spread the news of matchmaking, and charge high deposit fees to these people in the name of foreign-related matchmaking. Some even commit transnational fraud, trafficking in women and other illegal and criminal acts, which seriously disrupt the normal social order.
This illegal cross-border matchmaking not only appears in Heze, Shandong, but also exists in Henan, Anhui, Jiangxi, Hunan, Yunnan and other places. For example, Henan Dahe Daily reported in the article "Don't run out of money in transnational marriage" published on June 3, 2020: "From 20 17 to 20 18, the public security organs received more than a dozen alarms about foreign brides, involving brides escaping, emotional breakdown, running away from home and so on. " ? ?
The reason why China people spend money to buy wives is endless, besides rooted in their own cultural customs, there is also a social subculture different from the mainstream culture. Trafficking in women is a common thing in famine in the late Qing Dynasty. In a specific era, this subculture once occupied a dominant position, which made people feel that buying and selling were reasonable. ?
Even now, men in some underdeveloped and poor areas still choose this method. They are still not "open-minded" about women, because the conditions are backward, and they try to identify women as their accessories through buying and selling. In the early years, in addition to the lack of law popularization, the punishment for traffickers' crimes was not enough. Coupled with the development of information technology in recent years, these criminals have various means of committing crimes.
Fortunately, on April 9, 20021year, the General Office of the State Council issued the notice of China Action Plan to Combat Human Trafficking (20021-2030), which mentioned: strengthening the rectification of the "buyer's market" of human trafficking crimes, strengthening the analysis and judgment of the "buyer's market" by using modern scientific and technological means, and carrying out comprehensive management in areas with high incidence of human trafficking crimes. It is a good thing that the country can strike hard at nature. I hope that realistic movies like Blind Mountain will only be a warning in the future.
Zazie Hoko