It reminds me that in mainstream screenwriting, if we want an audience to sympathize and support a character who is deeply oppressed and who wants to break the social norms, the most conventional way is to portray the character as morally impeccable so that the audience can easily classify the character as a victim (e.g., in The Bridges …
It reminds me that in mainstream screenwriting, if we want an audience to sympathize and support a character who is deeply oppressed and who wants to break the social norms, the most conventional way is to portray the character as morally impeccable so that the audience can easily classify the character as a victim (e.g., in The Bridges of Madison County, the heroine patiently hid her secrets until her death). In some art films, however, the screenwriter often deliberately portrays morally flawed, but still oppressed characters who yearn for freedom (e.g., in Anatomy of a Fall and Titane, the heroines are very strong and aggressive, even subject to suspicion of murder), which often causes widespread controversy due to their ambiguous identity between victim and perpetrator (but these characters also elicits more thoughts and discussions that surpassed facial moral intuitions).
It reminds me that in mainstream screenwriting, if we want an audience to sympathize and support a character who is deeply oppressed and who wants to break the social norms, the most conventional way is to portray the character as morally impeccable so that the audience can easily classify the character as a victim (e.g., in The Bridges of Madison County, the heroine patiently hid her secrets until her death). In some art films, however, the screenwriter often deliberately portrays morally flawed, but still oppressed characters who yearn for freedom (e.g., in Anatomy of a Fall and Titane, the heroines are very strong and aggressive, even subject to suspicion of murder), which often causes widespread controversy due to their ambiguous identity between victim and perpetrator (but these characters also elicits more thoughts and discussions that surpassed facial moral intuitions).