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“I think the ideal life is to make my silicone dolls real people so they don’t have to be love dolls anymore.” Evra, a middle-aged man living in a small town in southwest England, looks like a Others are no different. But when he stepped into the house, what greeted him was not his family, but a room of silicone dolls like everyone else. In the documentary “Ru Gum Like a Wife”, Dutch documentary filmmaker Sophie Doros turned the camera on Evra, who fell in love with a silicone love doll, and recorded the life of a man who lived alone for many years. mood.
“When I first heard about a man living with his silicone doll, I thought it was so weird, he must be crazy!” said Sophie Doros, a Dutch documentary filmmaker who has focused on gender issues for a long time. . When he first came into contact with Evra many years ago, it was because the silicone doll had become the focus of curious media reports. He also appeared in another documentary, Man and Doll, and is no stranger to the camera. “But I told him that this movie is not just about your doll, I want to make you a person.”
In “Ru Gum Like Wife”, Evra has been living alone since losing her mother many years ago. Unable to develop stable relationships with women in the real world, he turned to projecting his emotions onto the silicone dolls he bought. He lived with 13 lifelike silicone sex dolls, put on make-up, put on delicate costumes, drank afternoon tea together, and even drove the silicone dolls out to relax. Silicone dolls are usually seen as products of desire, ordinary toys, or simple models, but in Evra’s eyes, seriously falling in love with silicone dolls is the only way for him to resolve his loneliness.
“I want to take the audience to experience this process of understanding from prejudice.” Sophie Doros said that in addition to the artistry of videos and images, the story is also the focus of the documentary narrative. “I don’t just want to present a seemingly crazy and bizarre exterior. For me, it’s about how to see farther and farther.”
The documentary “As Beautiful as a Wife” was screened in the “SARS Eros” section of the 23rd Taiwan International Women’s Film Festival.