I am woman, hear me roar

In numbers too big to ignore

And I know too much to go back an' pretend

'cause I've heard it all before

And I've been down there on the floor

No one's ever gonna keep me down again

But it's wisdom born of pain

Yes, I've paid the price

But look how much I gained

If I have to, I can do anything

I am strong

I am invincible

I am woman

But this is the biggest worry - will the film forcibly "whitewash" the Cruella villain in order to highlight the feminist tone?

After all, in the last live-action film with the villain as the protagonist, Maleficent, the witch who caused the princess to sleep for a hundred years, was thoroughly washed inside and out.

Although with the appearance of the devil, but in fact is a big mother love, in order to protect the princess even at the expense of self-sacrifice, inclusive of all, selfless to pay without asking for return... This is a way of telling a story, but in this way, it is not a movie belonging to the villain, but a "redemption" movie about how the villain is good.

To some extent, this is actually another kind of binding and use of women - women can not be bad, women must be the embodiment of "truth, goodness and beauty", since the princess is no longer popular, then simply let the witch and stepmother wear the villain's coat to perform "truth, goodness and beauty".

Their "evil deeds" are because of pain, childhood pain, emotional pain, etc., carrying their difficult to carry, so from the victim into the perpetrator, like being forced to Liangshan, forced to do evil.

On the contrary, the male villains are mostly led by ambition and desire, and they lead a road to the black. In contrast, women are so tired and miserable even if they are bad.

But abandon gender, evil is a certain component of human nature, why only men are ambitious, eager to become 10,000 people, and women can not be "born brilliant, born bad"?

So we are very excited about the character of Cruella - because she is a genius with a huge character flaw, and her obsession with beauty is almost crazy, so crazy that when she sees a puppy, she only thinks about how beautiful the fur will be into clothes, not about these innocent little lives that will be sacrificed. Her "evil" is not to sell misery, but to realize her arrogant dream.

We spend most of our lives learning how to be good, how to get rid of the evil in our nature and become good. Stay sane, stay sober, behave properly.

So we need a real villain (not a victim) to carry the dark side we have nowhere to vent, to stage a broken, chaotic, unburdened by other people's expectations, unfulfilled nightmares and dreams.

We can't be crazy, deviant, irrational women, but that doesn't stop us from loving her, dreaming of a good play, enjoying a pain, and welcoming a grand destruction.

Let her be the villain.

Let her be your beautiful dark twisted fantasy.