“Julia’s Eyes” The film “Julia’s Eyes” is a Spanish film that was shown at 2010 directed by Guillem Morales. I believe that this movie is strongly related to gender issue which is feminism. This movie shows the behaviors of males to females, and what females must do to solve the problems in feminism. The film starts with Sara waking up by a music. She is a blind person. She says that she does not like the music and shouts “I know you are there!” to someone. She walks down to the basement of the house and she was hanged to death. The police assures that the death was a suicide but Sara’s twin sister Julia, who was also a blind person, senses the strangeness of the death of her sister and starts to investigate the truth of this death. This …show more content…
Angel, the villain of the film, shows obsession to the blinded women. He stays near Julia by being her assistance since she has a problem with her eyes. Julia depended on him, went where he told her to go, and did what he told her to do. In fact, Julia was being controlled by Angel. In my perspective, Angel just loves the fact that he can control and have power upon women. Since Julia was blinded, it was easy for him to take control of her and she had no choice but to follow him. Angel’s first attempt was Sara. Angel injects chemicals that would hinder the improvement of the sight of Sara to make her become his “slave”. He succeeds on making Sara’s eye condition bad but he fails to make her follow him forever and therefore kills Sara. This shows that Angel would rather kill the woman if he cannot have power and control over the girl. Similar character as Angel is shown to Isaac, the husband of Julia. Yes, he may love Julia more than Angel but same traits were shown in treating her. Isaac does not believe Julia that the investigations were wrong. He demands her to believe his thoughts and decisions, and forces her to stop the investigation. He did these actions for Julia but he cannot get out of the fact that he also forced her to be controlled by him. Finally, Blasco, the neighbor, he was about to hurt Julia when she refuses to be raped by him. Blasco again shows …show more content…
Therefore, I think that Angel represents the concept that “women are lower than men” and the blind people represents the females. This unfair idea that “women are lower than men” is not being recognized by many people that it is unfair or bad, but females can feel it because they are suffering from this threat of inequality just like Julia and Sara being threatened by
While she might think that her plans are working, they only lead her down a path of destruction. She lands in a boarding house, when child services find her, she goes to jail, becomes pregnant by a man who she believed was rich. Also she becomes sentenced to 15 years in prison, over a street fight with a former friend she double crossed. In the end, she is still serving time and was freed by the warden to go to her mother’s funeral. To only discover that her two sisters were adopted by the man she once loved, her sister is with the man who impregnated her, and the younger sister has become just like her. She wants to warn her sister, but she realizes if she is just like her there is no use in giving her advice. She just decides that her sister must figure it out by
Beyond the Lights, is a romantic drama film Directed by Gina Prince-Blythewood. The film premiered in September 2014 at an international film festival held in Toronto, and this followed by its release on November 14th, 2014 in the United States. The film is one of the strangest music industry romance based films, alternating between the entertainment business, wisdom and heartfelt flourishes. Yet, Gina Prince-Blythewood manages to show all the elements of her play into an irrefutably entertaining package.
These movies allowed female characters to embody all the contradictions that could make them a woman. They were portrayed as the “femme fatale” and also “mother,” the “seductress” and at the same time the “saint,” (Newsom, 2011). Female characters were multi-faceted during this time and had much more complexity and interesting qualities than in the movies we watch today. Today, only 16% of protagonists in movies are female, and the portrayal of these women is one of sexualization and dependence rather than complexity (Newsom, 2011).
... for is contrasted by the ugliness of Shiflet. He has mistreated both of these angels by deserting them. The comparison of the women to angels serves to highlight their virtue and point out that the women were undeserving of the disgraceful treatment they received at the hands of Tom Shiflet.
One of the issues that was raised is the idea of the relationship between femininty, technology and sexuality. The relationship between all of these qualities converse in one character, Maria. The real Maria has many roles thoughout the movie, including one who cares for the workers children, a preacher of peace for the workers, and one who loves Freder. The machi...
Since the birth of movies, Hollywood has strived to delve into the human experience and present certain aspects of life to the general population. Mental disorders are just one of many topics that are often explored for use in the media. The film A Beautiful Mind focuses specifically on paranoid schizophrenia, and follows protagonist John Nash’s life as he lives with the disorder. The film details Nash’s presymptomatic life at Princeton University, follows him through the early stages of the disorder, and continues as the symptoms begin to overrun his life. Luckily for Nash, his disorder is eventually clinically diagnosed and he is treated. The movie not only shares the tale of Nash’s life, but also shares with audiences a lesson about the
Society often views individuals that do not conform to its expectations as separate from the societal group. The Story of the Marquise-Marquis de Banneville, by Charles Perrault, François-Timoléon de Choisy, and Marie-Jeanne L’Héritier follows two main characters, one of which does not fully conform to binary gender presentation. The Girl with the Golden Eyes, authored by Honoré de Balzac, portrays an “oriental” woman as an object to be purchased and used. In Le Roman de Parthenay Ou Le Roman de Melusine, written by Coudrette, the heroine is a half human, half fairy who holds great power. In this paper, I argue that the majority of biologically female protagonists in these novels exist in-between the expectations society has for them, which
As far as the movie goes, I have a feeling that the film is going to end with a tragedy. Alice Wu, the director of Saving Face, presents various conflicts in the film that involves of family, love and mostly about saving reputation. Characters have a lot of challenges where Wu uses motifs like silence and soap opera to give out sadness and bring audiences into a sad zone. When Wil, the protagonist of the film tells her mother known as Ma that she is a gay and Ma says, "I am a healthy mother and my daughter cannot be a gay. " Then Wil says to Ma, "Then I shouldn't be your daughter." and follows with silence. It is the saddest and heartbreaking thing to say to a mother and gives a sense of tragic. The silence after the conversation is like a
The film we watched was When Harry met Sally. It was a typical romantic comedy but it showed a different side. Most movies it 's always about the guy and girl falling in love with each other. With this it wasn 't the initial idea. It just showed how friends can eventually fall in love with each other when they are of opposite sex. I didn 't think the movie was going to go fully through with almost all the stages of Mark Knapp’s relational development but it did.
In the French film 8 Femmes, François Ozon, the director, guides a play from the 1950’s that focuses on a lively family that have deep secrets that all intertwine. In this musical mystery, comedy film, a murder has happened and each woman has their own motives for wanting to kill the man in the home. Yet, Ozon’s storyline is not the main focus of the film. The film follows each of the women which show the themes of betrayal, secrets, and most importantly sexuality. Sexuality is a main theme in many of François Ozon films that he directs. Sexuality in the cinema can be seen in many of his films because it affects Ozon personally.
In French’s ‘The Women’s Room’, the unhappy relationships between men and women are depicted. There is an inevitable ‘gender dynamics’ term in America and Mira is suffering from that. The novel represents issues like subordination to the patriarchy, identity loss, women trying to create their own identities, being objectified and treated as sexual objects. Objects mean ‘not human’ and the women in the 20th century weren’t
Shе hаѕ sad eyes. A mysterious melancholy comes frоm Scarlett Johansson, perhaps stemming frоm thе mоѕt important three minutes оf hеr life: аѕ ѕuсh іt describes namely thе short span thаt ѕhе wаѕ born іn 1984 іn New York City bеfоrе hеr twin brother Hunter. At thе ѕаmе time ѕhе hаѕ a vеrу girlish smile. In contrast tо thеіr outward gentleness іѕ thеіr peculiar harsh voice, whісh sometimes threatens tо break almost gone. Scarlett Johansson аѕ a public person іѕ combative аnd ironic. On thе repeated theming hеr sex appeal іn general аnd thеіr breast size іn particular, thеу replied: "Because I work fоr 14 years hard іn thе independent film business аnd finally get thе award fоr thе best breasts Whаt'ѕ wrong wіth mу brain tо mу heart, thе kidneys?
The world before her is a film of hope and dreams for Indian women. We examine two girls with different paths but one goal in common, empowerment. This term conveys a wide range of interpretations and definitions one of them being power over oneself. Both Prachi and Ruhi manifest a will for female empowerment but both have distinct views on how this is achieved. Prachi believes the way to achieve empowerment is through her mind and strength, while she still confines to tradition views of Indian culture. Ruhi desires to achieve female empowerment by exposing her beauty in a non-conservative way while maintaining her Indian identity.
...al film, conveying through editing the idealistic story of a man’s fantasies of happiness objectifying the women he loves into a patriarchal society, by dehumanizing them, making them easily replaceable, and both sexual and fragmented objects. For Fronçois, both Thérèse and Émilie are superficial objects, a fact which dehumanizes them, striping them completely from their subjective identities taking their roles in his male fantasy. Despite a rather odd and disturbing ending, with one woman replacing another, as the family continues living happily as if nothing particularly important took place. The ending demonstrates patriarchy in effect, where both Thérèse and Émilie are completely defined by Fronçois, and the only method in escaping is by ending their lives, since they can’t apparently hope to be allowed to define their own life within such patriarchal society.
Feminist theory was derived from the social movement of feminism where political women fight for the right of females in general and argue in depth about the unequality we face today. In the aspect of cinema, feminists notice the fictitious representations of females and also, machismo. In 1974, a book written by Molly Haskell "From Reverence to Rape: The treatment of Women in Movies" argues about how women almost always play only passive roles while men are always awarded with active, heroic roles. Moreover, how women are portrayed in movies are very important as it plays a big role to the audience on how to look at a woman and how to treat her in real life due to the illusionism that cinema offers. These images of women created in the cinema shapes what an ideal woman is. This can be further explained through an article 'Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema' written by a feminist named Laura Mulvey in 1975. She uses psychoanalysis theories by Sigmund Freud to analyze 'Scopophilia' which is the desire to see. This explains how the audience is hooked to the screen when a sexy woman is present. In a bigger picture, where Scopophilia derives from, 'Voyeurism' is also known as feeling visual pleasure when looking at another. Narcissism on the other hand means identifying one's self with the role played. It is not hard to notice that in classical cinema, men often play the active role while the women are always the object of desire for the male leads, displayed as a sexual object and frequently the damsels in distress. Therefore, the obvious imbalance of power in classical cinema shows how men are accountable to moving the narratives along. Subconsciously, narcissism occurs in the audience as they ...