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chibicharibdys who hits the main points of my problem with most of the films these days: it's all about the Man.
Read her review of The Dark Knight here.
In terms of films and books, my patience for watching films or reading stories in which only one or two women appear, who then have no agency and function only in terms of their (sexual or maternal) relationship with one or more of the men, has pretty much plunged to nothing.
I'm not talking about films like, say, Lawrence of Arabia in which, in the context of the story, there genuinely is no public space for women. I'm talking about epic fantasy or superhero movies or children's animated flicks or pretty much anything in which the writer/director/whatever cannot conceptually find space for females in a landscape that is more or less 50% women. I have the same lack of patience for film/stories that, in a similar intersectional vein, cannot find conceptual space for an ethnically, religiously, or culturally diverse cast in landscapes where, in fact, such diversity exists.
Yet time and again works so lacking conceptually may be described as cutting edge, ground breaking, provocative, and so on, when for me, from my perspective, it's just the same old same old styled up in fancier effects and clothing and with maybe a little more blood and gore. I have been around long enough now to state pretty categorically that, no, it's not new, it's just the same story. And I'm bored of it.
chibicharibdys who hits the main points of my problem with most of the films these days: it's all about the Man.Read her review of The Dark Knight here.
In terms of films and books, my patience for watching films or reading stories in which only one or two women appear, who then have no agency and function only in terms of their (sexual or maternal) relationship with one or more of the men, has pretty much plunged to nothing.
I'm not talking about films like, say, Lawrence of Arabia in which, in the context of the story, there genuinely is no public space for women. I'm talking about epic fantasy or superhero movies or children's animated flicks or pretty much anything in which the writer/director/whatever cannot conceptually find space for females in a landscape that is more or less 50% women. I have the same lack of patience for film/stories that, in a similar intersectional vein, cannot find conceptual space for an ethnically, religiously, or culturally diverse cast in landscapes where, in fact, such diversity exists.
Yet time and again works so lacking conceptually may be described as cutting edge, ground breaking, provocative, and so on, when for me, from my perspective, it's just the same old same old styled up in fancier effects and clothing and with maybe a little more blood and gore. I have been around long enough now to state pretty categorically that, no, it's not new, it's just the same story. And I'm bored of it.