How “Mustang” Film Affects Me “You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” - Ray Bradbury. “Mustang” is a movie which was directed by Deniz Gamze Ergüven, a Turkish-French and was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Awards and won many other awards such as César Awards. It was filmed in a distant village in northern Turkey where the culture and the environment were so strict there especially on teenager girls. In other words, the culture in this movie did not give women their freedom. The movie showed a story about five orphaned beautiful sisters whose names are Lale, Nur, Ece, Selma, and Sonay and were raised by their grandmother and uncle. They were struggling …show more content…
Not only about their clothes, but also they drink wines and beers in the wedding even though they are Muslims. Those two things taught me that if I want to judge any people’s cultures, I would not blame or focus on their religion because not all people follow their religion …show more content…
The first aspect is that females in my culture have their freedom to go to anywhere they want after taking permission from their parents or husbands. On the other hand, females in this movie lived under strict rules which force them to stay home every day and not to communicate with people outside. If they wanted to go out, they had to make a plan for running away without being detected. The second aspect is that getting education for girls is something valuable and very important in my culture no matter what. However, in this movie, the family of the girls stopped and prevented them from going to school which means they did not care about their education. The last aspect is that females in my culture can choose a man who she wants to get married to without being forced by anyone. On the other hand, the marriage in the culture of the movie is controlled and arranged by families of females which mean females are being forced not only to stay home and stop going to school, but also to get married to someone that they do not want which leads to unknown
In “The Meaning of Adornment,” a sub-chapter within “Distinction and Display in the Visiting Scene,” Meneley explains how important adornment (fashion) is for Zabidi women. The women made sure that they publicly dress too impressed because they know that their families and themselves will be judged (Meneley 1996: 109). Zabidi women become the active participators when they dress appropriately to their culture to ensure their families’
It is no secret that there is an obvious difference of how women are portrayed in the media versus men. This movie discussed female characters never having lead roles and stated that when they did it ended in the women depending on, loving, or having to have a man. One young high school girl said, “Women never play the protagonist. The girls are
Stages of cultural identity development can be easily recognized in movies and films depicting realistic lives of people and their culture. The movie, Real Women Have Curves, is a good example of this illustration. Conformity, dissonance and appreciating, resistance and immersion, introspection, and universal awareness are the five stages of cultural identity and the media review offers a brief description of each stage along with a character from the movie that represents that particular stage. Additionally, covered in this media review is lasting impressions on me and what I found most memorable, and what roles did gender play; especially the male roles.
The movie "Girl Rising" consists of nine short stories of nine different girls from nine different countries. Each has their own life to live and a story to tell. The movie portrays girls' rights and their ability to rise above their unfortunate fate. Sokha, known as the "child of the dump," lives in Cambodia with no family or relatives. She is an orphan. Her home is the dump. She has always yearned for a chance to go to school. She wanted to know what the alphabet sounds like coming out of her mouth. She wanted to wear a school uniform. That was her one dream-- to have an education. Sokha's determination to wear a school uniform eventually became a reality.
the girls are being victimized, and that unhealthy media standards along with oppressive ideals in
Gender and culture are two concepts that were principally shown throughout the film. The film revolves around Toula’s traditional Greek family and how they exemplify gender roles, gender stereotyping as well as gender stratification. The film also epitomized on subcultures, countercultures, ethnocentrism, cultural relativism and lastly, cultural
The most important events of this film all revolve around the female characters. While there are some male charac...
In Hollywood Harems, the oriental woman is portrayed as the object of the fantasies of western males. The film focused on representing Muslim women as a form of sexual entertainment. For example, an oriental woman is seen dancing in a revealing dress and lures men in her past the holiness of the veil through the forbidden territory of the harem. Harem expressed the idea of women as a form of entertainment and repression of women sexuality. The message of the film illustrates the fascination of the east and reinforces derogative assumptions about people in the east in general and women in particular; it also reinforces the idea of cultural supremacy of the Anglo-European world. Hollywood used the term harem in the 1950s as a response to the
Princess movies have negative effects on the minds of little girls. Parent’s try their hardest to raise their girls to be strong independent women. The princess movies portray a woman that fulfills his man's needs and puts away education. The movies portray that everything is about beauty and being
There are many different views towards Muslim choice of clothing especially wearing the veil. “I wear it believing it is necessary, but someone else can be wearing it believing that she is doing something extra” said Hamna Ahmed. One of the many reasons a Muslim can be wearing the veil are their own personal decisions too. Hamna has been wearing it for seven years now, despite her mother and three of her four sisters staying uncovered. Socially this causes an issue with the meaning of the veil and conflict with other groups. With many different consumptions of religion, what it means, what is considered to be practicing and what is not can lead to negative misunderstandings. Ultimately the decisions are up to the individuals although; there is likely to be misinterpretation between the meaningfulness of religion to family and society. On an even bigger scale of things this could also impact society and it...
Some people might say that these movies provide entertainment and transport families into the lives of princes and princesses. Many critics have said that the films have amazing soundtracks and have detailed and interesting plots. Still, however entertaining the films may be, the way women are viewed and treated outweigh any enjoyment that a viewer could have. The subliminal lessons young women learn from these films have lifelong repercussions and negatively affect the female
Also, the film revealed women empowerment and how superior they can be compared to men. While demonstrating sexual objectification, empowerment, there was also sexual exploitation of the women, shown through the film. Throughout this essay, gender based issues that were associated with the film character will be demonstrated while connecting to the real world and popular culture.
...ality because everyone should have equal to do what they want. Popular culture spread the idea of nautaral which changed the position of female in the univeral. Women' knowlegdes and abilities seem to have rise a lot compare with 1990s. Woman would be a successful businessman, worker, fireman and so on. As mass media become the most important part of communication in the earth, the most infusive part to affect human's attitudes is the domestic or romantic drama. It spread the different concepts to the families, neighbors, friends etc by the interaction between them. Movie heroes are not spread one single-minded nowadays, the gender and sexuality of people or hero should all be equal.
In western films such as Juno, feminism is more positive as female characters are made to be stronger and more career driven than female characters in Malaysian films. In Juno, the female lead has a mind of her own, makes her own decisions which is the total opposite of the female lead in Ombak Rindu. Feminist culture in Western countries are more forward and are growing stronger as compared to times of classical Hollywood cinema. However, Malaysian films still try to keep the tradition alive even in modern films by reinforcing partriarchy and never forgetting to remind women not to stray from their traditional roles. These two films are very different in terms of feminist culture as they are tradition.
The stories on screen are about men and their conflicts, their dreams, their aspirations, their tragedies, their revenge, their desires and their heroism. The women exist only in relation to those men, as their mothers, their wives, and especially their lovers. (shodhganga