{"id":532715,"date":"2022-12-30T09:21:30","date_gmt":"2022-12-30T06:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-hidden-letters-review-speaking-out-when-speech-is-forbidden\/"},"modified":"2022-12-30T09:21:30","modified_gmt":"2022-12-30T06:21:30","slug":"watch-hidden-letters-review-speaking-out-when-speech-is-forbidden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-hidden-letters-review-speaking-out-when-speech-is-forbidden\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch &#8216;Hidden Letters&#8217; Review: Speaking Out When Speech Is Forbidden"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a36ec6a2c5fc\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a36ec6a2c5fc\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-hidden-letters-review-speaking-out-when-speech-is-forbidden\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Hidden_Letters_Review_Speaking_Out_When_Speech_Is_Forbidden%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Hidden Letters&#8217; Review: Speaking Out When Speech Is Forbidden&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-hidden-letters-review-speaking-out-when-speech-is-forbidden\/#%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Hidden_Letters_Review_Speaking_Out_When_Speech_Is_Forbidden%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;&#8216;Hidden Letters&#8217; Review: Speaking Out When Speech Is Forbidden&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Hidden_Letters_Review_Speaking_Out_When_Speech_Is_Forbidden%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Hidden Letters&#8217; Review: Speaking Out When Speech Is Forbidden&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Hidden_Letters_Review_Speaking_Out_When_Speech_Is_Forbidden%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;&#8216;Hidden Letters&#8217; Review: Speaking Out When Speech Is Forbidden&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    In Violet Du Feng\u2019s \u201cHidden Letters,\u201d an elder says women \u201cwere only slaves to men\u201d before the concept of gender equality was introduced by Mao\u2019s Great Push Forward \u2014 and that was only 60 years ago. This graceful feature, which just made the Oscar documentary shortlist, provides an angle on which to consider how far women\u2019s roles have \u2014 and haven\u2019t \u2014 evolved in Chinese society since.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    That angle is the \u201csecret <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">script<\/a>\u201d of Nushu, a written form invented by and used for communication between women otherwise forbidden to read or write. Feng\u2019s engaging film offers a gently questioning perspective on whether the issues this now-quaint private language addressed retain currency in today\u2019s China, where economically driven progressive attitudes may as yet only superficially impact deep-seated cultural ones. \u201cLetters\u201d commenced a limited U.S. theatrical release on Dec. 9, launches on VOD Dec. 23 and has a PBS playdate slotted for May 22.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Apparently largely confined to Jiangyong County in Hunan province, its period of origin unknown, Nushu remained such a successfully kept secret that it didn\u2019t reach public awareness until the early 1980s. Symbols that looked like decorative nonsense to men were written on fans, handkerchiefs and other items likely to pass between women often living lives of servile isolation, confined to domestic quarters by convention and painfully bound feet. It was often the only way for them to express frustration and despair at \u201cdire situations\u201d they could not escape, as one observer here says. The furtive nature of their correspondence was underlined by the fact that the women usually destroyed any evidence of it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Feng stylistically evokes the quiet desperation of past lives with a frequent lyrical camera focus on details of the rural landscapes and cobwebbed village dwellings long abandoned. But she finds three present-day protagonists, all Nushu experts in their way. Hu Xin is the youngest among a handful of government-certified \u201cinheritors\u201d of the language and a guide at its dedicated museum in Jiangyong. The more cosmopolitan, Shanghai-based Simu Wu also carries that torch, as a singer (there are Nushu songs too) and calligrapher. Both these millennials absorb knowledge from He Yanxin, a grandmother who learned Nushu from her own grandmother, and attests that the form was \u201cmostly about misery\u201d \u2014 women covertly commiserating over their lot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    She casts a skeptical eye on the current attempts we glimpse to make Nushu into a kind of marketing fad, hawked via novelty consumer goods from men\u2019s clothes to a cellphone translation app. Needless to say, she thinks such commercial exploitation has \u201cnothing to do\u201d with something \u201ccreated to rebel.\u201d Even when Nushu gets celebrated as a \u201ccultural treasure,\u201d we note that (for instance) at the glitzy opening of a \u201cNushu International Culture Exchange Center,\u201d all the smiling officials onstage are men.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    That somewhat absurd disconnect between affirmating message and everyday reality turns out to be echoed in the protagonists\u2019 own lives, which on the surface appear models of hard-won independence. Hu Xin is a target of gossip for being a childless divorc\u00e9e; we find out her ex-husband beat her, then left for a second wife when she failed to give him a son. He Yanxin likewise struggled against sexist bigotry as a widow raising children alone. Even the confident, prominent Simu Wu, whose fianc\u00e9e is fully supportive of her career focus, worries whether a balance between profession and family is really possible in the long run.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    We hear some rather shockingly defeatist sentiments about gender roles from women who otherwise appear very \u201cmodern,\u201d from one garrulous 30-something at a meeting citing men as the \u201cheaven\u201d women must remain below, to an older figure who shrugs, \u201cAs women we should feel blessed if men don\u2019t scold or beat us.\u201d Then there\u2019s the male former Nushu museum chief who opens his mouth, and out drops a fossil: \u201cNushu is about obedience, acceptance and resilience. As long as women have these qualities, we\u2019ll have a good society. But few women embody these values today.\u201d Such ingrained attitudes are not condemned here \u2014 they simply illustrate how far this fast-changing society has yet to go in truly embracing its vaunted progress.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    One might ask for more historical background on Nushu, sketchy as the record is. \u201cHidden Letters\u201d also sometimes feels a bit contrived in its situations, which eventually include bringing the three principal interviewees together. But its tacit emphasis isn\u2019t so much explanatory, or v\u00e9rit\u00e9-style observation, as providing a meditative, finally upbeat pulse-taking of a sisterhood that stretches from an archaic writing form\u2019s earliest days to the theoretically liberated women of China today. Feng\u2019s elegantly crafted feature suggests they stand on the shoulders of those who persevered despite far fewer options, and whose strength should remain an inspiration.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n  !function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n    if (f.fbq) return;\n    n = f.fbq = function() {\n      n.callMethod ?\n          n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments);\n    };\n    if (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\n    n.push = n;\n    n.loaded = !0;\n    n.version = '2.0';\n    n.queue = [];\n    t = b.createElement(e);\n    t.async = !0;\n    t.src = v;\n    s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s);\n  }(window, document, 'script',\n      'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('init', '586935388485447');\n  fbq('init', '315552255725686');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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