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The Sociality of Tragic Fate of Marginal Characters from a Masculinist Perspective - An Example from the Film Mr. Tree

Xiangru KongTiangong University*

* Corresponding author: [email protected]

Abstract

The protagonist of this film is Mr.Tree, an over-aged youth, unemployed and mentally ill, who lives at the bottom of Chinese rural society. Through the subjective perspective of him, a marginal character in the society, the film reflects on and crises the social problems faced in the process of development and transformation of contemporary society under the domination of the patriarchal system, and this paper will discuss how this process is based on the dual identities of ‘grassroots’ and ‘male’. This paper will discuss how this process has caused irreparable damage to the fate of the marginalized characters represented by Mr.Tree, who is both ‘grassroots’ and ‘male’, as well as the inevitable social factors for this damage to occur, so as to analyse the plight of the underclass under the domination of the patriarchal system from a masculine point of view. The male survival dilemma under the domination of patriarchy is analyzed from a masculine perspective.

Keywords: grassroots; patriarchy; social critique
Published: November 20, 2023
DOI: 10.54254/2753-7064/13/20230231
Volume: CHR Vol.13
pp. 73-78
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