This article mainly focuses on the relationship between the spaces and the women in the city. Some of the noir films, such as The Forsaken Love, were made in 1968, it is similar with many classic fairy tale stories that a naïve Cinderella rescued by a young and rich prince. In this film, the producer and director use the industrial workplace to indicate the protagonist’s background, showing that she is a poor and hardworking woman. The spaces that the woman protagonist live is crowded, and it needs to use its living room spaces for sewing, hence, the social status of the character is clearly showed to the audience, which is petty and low. I really appreciate how the director utilizing the protagonist’s living environment in order to imply her situation, it linkages the spaces with the women wisely.
Perhaps It is full of gender stereotypes and social inequality in the traditional Chinese films, under the modernization, new values and insights are instilled in people’s mind. The films are more emphasized on women power, not only do the men fight for their right, but also women stand for the justice. The film, Black Rose demonstrated that women perform martial arts for helping the poor and there are no women stay behind the male waiting for rescue. This transformation of empowerment makes the plot more interesting and thought-provoking, as it delivers a message that everyone, as an individual, does not need to rely on others. Thus, I truly appreciate the article mentioning about the gender discrimination since it gives me insightful ideas for this issue.
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I appreciate your response to Noirs’ text, which reflects on the challenges and commitments of women in Hong Kong’s society in the 1960s. My feedback is: 1/You should work on polishing your sentences and paragraphs more as they are, sometimes, difficult to read; and 2/You should elaborate on the point that you said, ‘gender stereotypes and social inequality in the traditional Chinese films.’ What are they? And how they showed in the films and reality, 3/ you can talk more about spatial practices in Black Rose and how they illustrate modernity and spatial inequality.