a good review of the day the earth stood still at gendergoggles. i liked the movie and i liked the review, and the review points out that the movie does, in fact, pass the bechdel test. i was pretty sure it did, but it's good to have my thoughts confirmed.
betsy's fair and balanced stuff
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2 Comments:
Hi betsyl,
eloriane, who wrote the post you linked to, is having intermittent internet access at the moment so I thought I'd take the liberty of thanking you for the link on her behalf.
I love eloriane's movie reviews - it's partly why I ended up co-blogging with her! (well, that and she asked me :-p )
cheers!
I'm glad somebody got more out of that movie than I did! I loved the Kathy Bates role, but the Jennifer Connelly character reminded me too much of "Heinlein heroine" stereotypes -- look, she's brilliant and she's authoritative *and* she runs around in high heels and never smears her makeup. To me that's not a feminist heroine; it's a sexist fantasy that sets impossibly high standards for femininity and pretends that being sufficiently ass-kicking is a ticket out of gendered oppression. I'd rather see movies tell the truth: the real Helen would consistently have to be twice as loud as anyone else in order to get listened to, and even then, she'd have better-than-even odds of simply getting written off as a bitch. And the chances she'd actually have the time and energy to look like Jennifer Connelly while doing all this (and oh yeah, raising a kid on her own, too!)? Vanishingly slim. Sure, exceptional cases exist -- but giving us one more superwoman to drool over just doesn't seem to me like a feminist move, insofar as it doesn't actually seem to gain any ground for *ordinary* women.
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