Films Explore Gender Relations in Traditional Societies外文翻译.docx

Penelope Poulou
September 24,2013
Two new independent films, one by Afghan director Atiq Rahimi, and another by the first female Saudi filmmaker Haifaa al-Mansour, explore gender relations in two traditional societies. 
Rahimi’s film unravels散开,松线;解明,阐明,解决in an imagined country based on war-torn Afghanistan. The other takes place in Saudi Arabia. Although very different in style and treatment, both films zoom (使)陡直上升;(使)迅速上升in on a woman's world and perceptions in gender segregated .分开;分离;隔开societies.
A young woman in Atiq Rahimi's film The Patience Stone pours out her heart to atose昏迷的怠惰的;麻木的husband about years of emotional neglect and abuse.
The wife finds solace安慰;安慰物 in her unresponsive husband. He es her Patience Stone, a legendary 传说(中)的;传奇(中)的stone that, according to tradition, holds secrets and provides relief.
Afghan activist积极分子 Hossai Wardak says Rahimi paints an accurate picture of the typical Afghan loveless marriage and family relations in male-dominated societies like Afghanistan. 
“Marriage tends to be a relation where it’s more of being able to produce babies and expand families and to have somebody to take care of you," said Wardak.
She says the absence munication in many arranged marriages leads to mutual相互的共有的,共同的unhappiness, domestic violence and violence at large.
Why are there wars? Why do we end up with violence?
"It’s because there is no passi