I follow the last weeks’ feedback and have found more images about “Bella”. The images show the decent life that the character has, I imaging what do the characters have been through and what the actress felt after pretending to be someone else, will she have the sense of unevenness? The quantity of the images of she works as different occupations are more outstanding than her personal life.
Bella has so many different occupations and interesting spare time in iStock World, I can’t help to relate to the real-life, woman seems don’t have that much choice and generally don’t share the equal rights that man does in reality, especially in China, woman exceeds the specific age have less competitive because the society assumes that they will have to focus more on the family than the job. I would like to address that, showing the contrast between Bella’s story and real-life by using the images to make a ridiculous feeling document.
By emphasising the delusional life that Bella had, I quote some sentences from some feminist books that relate to work or self-value, and combine them together with the story:
“Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.” ― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
“You cannot easily fit women into a structure that is already coded as male; you have to change the structure. That means thinking about power differently. It means decoupling it from public prestige. It means thinking collaboratively, about the power of followers not just of leaders. It means, above all, thinking about power as an attribute or even a verb (‘to power’), not as a possession.”
― Mary Beard, Women & Power: A Manifesto
“Intellectual freedom depends upon material things. (…) Women have had less intellectual freedom than the sons of Athenian slaves. Women, then, have not had a dog’s chance of writing poetry. That is why I have laid so much stress on money and a room of one’s own”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
etc.
Using the form of pirated movies that are downloaded from the internet, which always have the scrolling advertisement at the top and consciously insert to your head. Here I refer the cinematic story of Bella to something artificial and idealized, and the quotes from feminist books refer to things that actually happen and are contentious in reality, using this way of narrative to trigger the critical reflection.
Feedback:
Working:
– Interesting relate to the feminism
– Advertisement(can communicate the artificial aspect of it than the google voice)
in this context devalued, allude the perfect story to lack valued
– The use of feminist text with the subtitle is powerful
Not working:
– Google voice&artificial aspect of it. It is not working well. (It can be only subtitle or someone narrative)，the audio might be better if it is recorded by a real person.
– The text was devalued in the form of scrolling subtitles.
Maybe:
– Ultimate part
– Maybe some negative
– Two different narratives, two different voices incorporate in.
– Bring your perspective in. Maybe cultural aspects.