There's this scene near the end of Greta Gerwig & # 39; s Young Women that sticks with me, months later; is probably the most famous part of the 2019 movie. In it, Jo Maras (Saoirse Ronan) once blows up in this movie to point her way as a writer – she tells her mother that she's tired of fighting the belief that women are meant for one thing.
"Women, they have minds and just souls and hearts," pleads the timid Jo. “They also have ambition and talent and good looks, and I'm very sick of people who say that love is the only woman right. I'm so sick! ”
At this point, Jo is almost out of breath. He takes a beating, shapes himself, and admits that there is price a conviction he does, as long as he lives in a society where women are bound by strong gender roles.
“But … I'm very lonely,” Jo said. An aggressive independence left him alone. By the end of the movie, we never know if the excitement that always comes after the audience is real, or is designed to satisfy its publisher. And frankly, as a woman who has prioritized my career and personality over many things in my 20s, I'm afraid to know the answer.
People like to quote this event, but only the first part. The part that sets Jo Mar up as an independent bad guy, the part where you can put your chest up – that's what will be seen everywhere. That wonderful last machine is left out, or it can be part of the whole thing.
High-budget video games often do the same thing, at least spiritually. When you play as a woman, that woman is a bad person, often different from her male counterparts. Sometimes, when given the choice between a male and female protagonist, that shift is real despite the fact that sometimes they are not treated the same way by society. Love and its aftermath are sometimes not the main part of the equation, because who wants to play as a loner? Nathan Drake can have a wife; His fiction seeks to answer the question of whether an addict is capable of true intimacy. As for Lara Croft, she goes into the desert by herself. You live alone.
Surprisingly, they are not very close Young Women The similarities I encountered within video games are 2019 Fire Cone: Three houses. On paper, Three houses it is a game of tactics when studying at a famous school. In fact, it's a game especially about the stage, the complexity of the gender roles, and how those things come together to make successful women lonely. Students of all stripes enter higher education institutions, from ordinary boys to nobles, and the presence of empowering “crests” unites these groups in the past.
A lot of game time is spent getting to know your cohort, which includes a set of professors with different interests. Manuela, a songwriter and healer, has a media sphere around her love life. How you look depends on who you communicate with. At first glance, Manuela's desire to find a man is almost a hopeless prospect. Your introduction of the opera singer – at least as a male protagonist – is proven in a way that almost makes Manuel seem more rewarding.
During your first private conversation with Manuela, she is an hangover and can even find her underwear. You are there to deliver a message from someone you do not know will reject him. "We will never go out to meet again," she said, quickly painting Manuela as an unwanted woman.
Manuela takes this very hard, because it is not the only thing that separates us. "I'm not worth anything as a woman … I'm not going to marry for the rest of my life," Manuel lamented. "I just know."
The amazing thing about this feature, Manuela is definitely a catch. Prior to his graduation, he was an internationally acclaimed musician and had a fine career.
"I'm a songwriter who got the Kingdom off his feet … people say they love me every hour!" exclaims the player, pleading that men should be pleading his attention.
We never see the bright side of Manuela, but when he is in the military, his power speaks for itself. In my plays, Manuela was my healer. By the end of my journey, I had transformed him into a Mortal Savant that could wipe out his enemies with stones and magic. I send him to any map he has provided for himself, I am sure he will be able to take whatever he finds. He always did, too.
Whether Manuela is really recognized or not depends on who he talks to. Men in particular seem to cook Manuela for his mistakes, or they don't take him seriously because of it type you're a woman. Manuela – according to most men, however – is supposed to be alone.
When she talks to Setheth, a classmate, she calls him drinking shame. Hannman, another colleague, is in a position to completely oppose the band, sometimes labeling him "insulting" and "invincible." Alois, a hopelessly old-fashioned and sexually-obsessed old man, mostly uses Manuela to help him get presents for his wife and daughter. Gilbert is probably the sweetest person for Manuela, but the game does not allow it to strengthen their relationship.
Manuela can improve her standing with other colleagues, but sometimes she has to fight discrimination that arises because she is sexist and not traditional. From time to time, he has to get rid of or force men to spend more time with him.
“I don't know what parents teach their children, or why they have children at all,” Manuela said to Gilbert, during their exchange.
Very young male students. Ferdinand, the celebrity, pays homage to Manu. But then he imitates her by calling her like a princess. Lorenz, a member of the Golden Deer, tries to avoid Manuel, at one point, saying, "If it weren't for his drinking, and his bad habits, he would fit in with the higher society." Cyril, the youngest student of the gang, is often afraid to contact Manuela because it means listening to a lot of heartbreaking stories. As he confides in her, Cyril suggests that Manuela dismisses men for his drinking. Sylvain, the woman, is the only one who tells Manuela that he is holding it … but the problem is that he says so all Woman, sometimes word for word.
"Nobody sees the person behind the word," sighs Manuel. “They see me as old today than yesterday. They said, & # 39; Hey, look what happened to her. & # 39; No one sees my anxiety. "
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This is especially true for men, but when talking to others women, Manuela's story is very different. When men see nothing but a lazy, disrespectful woman who has separated from her accomplishments, women look at Manu, often wishing they could be more like him.
Edelgard, the future governor of the Adrestian Empire, still remembers watching Manuela perform for the Mettelfrank Opera at an early age. Manuela tells Edelgard that while he could stay on the board for several decades, he left while he was behind his game.
Says Markela: “My word is a gift from the goddess. However, as all things do, it will decrease over the years. Someday, I'll lose that gift. (…) And then I decided that I must learn to live without it, long before my day arrived. ”
At this historical moment, Manuela's pursuit of love takes on a whole new meaning. Indeed, he was successful and patriotic before his time at school. But that value is tied to his age and beauty; when that is gone, he has nothing. How do you secure your future in the world that borders you?
That's the thread Three houses it explores more about Dorothea, the average person who follows Manuela's footsteps. Like Manuela, Dorothea becomes an opera singer – in fact, she is pursuing that career because of Manuela, whom they regard as his god.
“When you retired, it broke my heart,” Dorothea told Manuela. “But it woke me up. To see someone like you, so enlightened on stage, give it your all and start a new life. It made me think about my future, and how I want it to look. In the meantime, I followed your lead. ”
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Dorothea, coming to study, came to the academy not only to be able to resume her work – but also because she knew that the best heirs would be. She is still in school to secure her future with marriage, it keeps her very close Young Women and the pragmatic Amy March. Dorothea knows how the world works, and allows her to see Manuela in a different way than men do. He doesn't care if Manuela drinks; this mistake does not slow the singing store a little bit from him.
And as it turns out, Manuela has the reason to drink. Not that she was rejected left and right, because – as we learn from Dorothea's connection with her – Manuela already had a reputation for being a mature person during her time with the opera company.
In her interviews with Flayn, an innocent girl who doesn't know much about the world, Manuela points out that her success has not been easy. Trained for specific tasks, it started at sunrise and was “hard.” As soon as the show started, Manuela was doing three "exhausting" jobs a day. But that wasn't too bad.
“Here's the thing about opera,” explained Manuela. “Talent is not enough to get you a position in the show. You need money, communication, and failure – the stomach to make room for violence. "
Later, after telling Flayn that he had to be involved in the whole process, Manuela revealed that being famous meant hurting himself to get shot.
Manuela says: “I spent many nights getting the nobles in power. “No matter how embarrassing the job is, I do it. Because I wanted to be a star. Flayn gets it, though. He responds by telling Manuela that, sometimes, survival means doing things you don't want to do. This is especially true for women in this world, who do not have as many choices as men.
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But even if this were not true, you find it difficult to judge Manuela. Part of that comes from playing through Three houses, and knowing how hard it is to kill your ex and your friends to end the game. We don't really see this, but you have to think that as a healer of this school, Manuela has to deal with the culprit. I'm drinking too. And, as much as men want to reduce their love quest, if they get the lips they reach for as an opera star and advanced professor, what else can they strive for but intimacy? July does not slow down because he wishes a man in his life. You're just a human being.
However, I am very grateful that Manuela can be The original trauma – that he can't be boiled down to being "good" or "just," but he also has both. When I think of the women in the media who live with me, they are usually not easy characters. Cameron in Halt and Catch Fire, equally caustic as he is bright. Starbuck in Warstar Galactica, with the fury destined for his future. Gretchen Cutler in He is the worst of all, nearly injures himself in his mental health journey. It's Quinn's master in the middle Which is not true, building an empire at the expense of owning a family.
It's a bunch of distracted, successful and ignorant labels. Many of them do not find love at the end of the story, at least among the episodes we watch happen. But the fact that I can see them, kick and scream against the present – that makes me feel a little lonely, at least.
