Gilead没有任何原创的政策,“its genius is synthesis”,本剧也并不成就于其新颖的构想——玛格丽特取材于不同的国家、民族、历史阶段,最后合成了Gilead。它从不曾同一地在一个时间点上存在过,但它零零碎碎,在无数的历史事件中上演。
在Offred一次次绝望的时候,与丈夫分离的时候,在窗边想着上一个悬梁自尽的人的时候,躺在衣柜里扣弄那教人不放弃的标语的时候,和Nick道出自己的名字的时候,想要完全妥协却发现无从选择的时候,我也无数次地庆幸这是本剧集:这个人从不曾在历史上真正出现过,但实际上,正如编剧本人所说,本剧没有一个细节人类历史不曾发生过。
女性成为使女会失去自己的名字,变成象征从属关系的“Of+男性姓氏”:现在西方社会仍然会称呼结婚女性为“XXX的太太”,主流的价值观则是给孩子冠上父姓。Gilead让哈佛大学校园成为了控制极权的中心,围墙外面悬吊着那些被蒙上白布的尸体,荒谬吗?可是1636年哈佛学院刚刚成立时,它本就是个清教机构,它宣扬着“为基督,为教会”的校训,这和那些灌输“圣经”中屈从的、卑贱的父权体系思想的Aunts有何不同?而伊朗的女人在当今蒙着脸、蒙着头发,又和那些带着白色头罩的使女有何不同?
国家提倡三胎,各路媒体专门针对女性营销“又纯又欲”,无非就是在这个一夫一妻制的社会体系下让女性成为妻子,也成为使女,去履行自己生育的“责任”。
- “Nature demands variety, for men. …. Women know that instinctively. Why did they buy so many different clothes, in the old days? To trick the men into thinking they were several different women.”
- “So now that we don’t have different clothes, you merely have different women.” 教育水平相对较高的阶层的生育率近年来持续走低,我们走在人类关系愈发复杂的现在,我们以为踏平了过去的路,却不知正走在莫比乌斯环上,“there can be no light without shadow; or rather, no shadow unless there is also light”,看似遥远又不切实际的故事,其实正潜伏在我们的阴影里。人类的过去带着Gilead的烙印,而人类的未来是会成为最后那一场研讨会,还是研讨会上被研讨的磁带呢?我只感到惶恐。
“I wish this story were different. I wish it were more civilized. I wish it showed me in a better light, if not happier, then as least more active, lee hesitant, less distracted by trivia. I wish it had more shape. I wish it were about love, or about sudden realizations important to one’s life, or even about sunsets, birds, rainstorm, or snow. Maybe it is about those things, in a way;
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