“Indecent” Female Images in Wong Kar-wai’s Films
Abstract
Wong Kar-wai's movie text has its own unique female image, feminism and male position, which are intertwined. It seems to have different flavor and unresolved contradictions. The indecent women's films are reborn and subverted. The important carrier of Wong Kar-wai's movie narrative link-love, and discusses the status and identity of women in love, and summarizes the fate of women's love. In Wong Kar-wai’s films, women are the contradictory body that longs to break through the shackles and to obtain ideological liberation, economic liberation and personality liberation. The thesis mainly combines two films: "2046" and "the hand". Based on the feminist theory, this paper analyzes the indecent images of women in Wong Kar-wai’s films. This paper expounds the theme expression and construction method of Wong Kar-wai’s female narration, and relates the indecent female image with the drifting social groups, so as to form a cultural review of the indecent images of women in the movies.
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