Later in the decade, more films were made from an actual woman’s point of view, rather than the way a man might perceive or see a woman. Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (1974), is such film that gives a portrayal of feminism through a young single mother. The director Martin Scorsese said: What I wanted to do in Alice – and what nobody was doing at the time – was to tell a story from a woman’s point of view. The film is about the death of Alice’s husband and the hardships of the working class. Alice learns to live her life out of the shadow of her abusive husband and makes a new life for herself and her son. Her character is of a real woman who struggles and faces failures and successes. Film critic Robert Hatch did not consider Alice successful
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
Throughout the novel, crucial family members and friends of the girl that died are meticulously reshaped by her absence. Lindsey, the sister, outgrows her timidity and develops a brave, fearless demeanor, while at the same time she glows with independence. Abigail, the mother, frees herself from the barbed wire that protected her loved ones yet caused her great pain, as well as learns that withdrawing oneself from their role in society may be the most favorable choice. Ruth, the remote friend from school, determines her career that will last a lifetime. and escapes from the dark place that she was drowning in before. Thus, next time one is overcome with grief, they must remember that constructive change is guaranteed to
The production focuses on a set of teenagers who are friends with Allison, who surreptitiously convinces her friends to share their secrets, thus developing her loyalty to them. Once Allison disappeared, she left a mystery of who was responsible for her disappearance, dragging her friends into her dark secrets. Her body is later found, and the girls, who drifted apart after Allison went missing, start to reconnect, but their troubles are only beginning. After the funeral, all four of the girls receive messages from a stoker who calls himself or herself 'A'. ‘A' exposes many of the girl's dark secrets that only Allison knew of, leading the girls to wonder if Allison might be alive after all. ‘A' causes trouble for the girls and intervenes in their life, threatening not only their lives, but also the lives of those around them. On the road to discovering who ‘A' is, the girls come across numerous clues that incriminate people that they trust and love. Many citizens of the town seem involved in the mystery of their friend's death, making the entire town seem like a place of danger and discomfort.
The movie, To Live, is about the life of Xu Fugui and his family. Fugui is a rich man with a gambling problem. The Chinese Civil War is taking place during the beginning of the movie. When Fugui loses his property gambling, he is forced to join Chungsheng in the business of shadow puppets to make money for his family.. Fugui and Chungsheng are forced to join the army. After most of their fellow troops were killed, Fugui and Chungsheng were captured by the Communist Party. Fugui eventually returns home to his wife and kids, to find that his daughter survived a fever, but can no longer speak. The CCP is now in power of China and Fugui sees the man he lost his property to, being put on trial. The movie jumps to the time of The Great Leap Forward. During this time all steel items were collected by the government. Fugui was allowed to keep
African American women were identified as the 'Mule of the world because they have been handed burden everyone else refused to carry and never had any intention of giving up. Men saw black women as a weak soul,a housewife who are there to bear children. Black women had no moment to sit down to feed her creative spirit because she was busy been a mother, a provider and a slave in the face of the society. It was the time in America where black people were forbidden to write; many untold stories and talents was never revealed due to the fear engraves in the heart of the African American women. Alice was born in this time and she saw the emptiness and enduring faces of the women who had a lot to share in the society but they were overshadowed by the slavery of
The commitment of Lucas to share his last words with his sister shows a deep love and respect for the one that he caused so much pain. The identity that he created in his death is one that shows weakness and a falsehood of what success truly is. Alice’s healing of her own scars starts with her realization that denial of the events of her past have also stopped her from living for the future. With this final set of circumstances, Alice, now can become the person that she truly sees her self to be; An independent black professional woman who does not fit the mold that society has carved out for her to be. Lucas has given her the freedom to create her own identity and the freedom to use his life mistakes as lessons for her own well being and survival of identity issues, societal views, and her relationships.
It is amazing that nearly all critics of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland focused solely on the character and adventures of the female protagonist/hero. A somewhat right-wing and didactic critique at Decent Films writes, “Alice embodies the gender feminist narrative of vibrant young girls losing their mojo as they come of age in patriarchal society.” The woman’s magazine, Jezebel, while praising the movie as “refreshingly feminist” seemed to notice only that the hero who fights against the forces of evil is a woman. Jezebel mentions other characters, but does not take the time to catalogue their relationship to feminism. In an Associated Content piece by Adriana Tanese-Nogueria which does, commendably, explore the feminist theme much more richly than many other reviews, still, the main focus is on Alice’s journey of feminist liberation. But Lewis Carroll also takes a look at the men in this story. Men during the Victorian era were known to have the control over the household and have a job. Their lives were around getting the perfect wife and making a lot of money. So when one reads some of the characters in Alice in Wonderland, one can see some difference in how he portrays some of the characters.
The film starts with the scenes of daily lifes of two women. Thelma is married to a man who thinks that he is the centre of the world because he is a manager of a carpet. company. He sees his wife as a lower order of life, to be tolerated so long as she keeps her household duties straight. Just like a servant who doesn’t have any rights or freedom. Louise waits tables in a coffee shop and her boyfriend is a musician who is never going to be ready to settle down. They live under high patriarchal domination.
There are many times that Hollywood comes under fire for the way they take an amazing story and script, and completely ruin it when they bring it to the screen. Hollywood takes scripts describing past historical events, current events, autobiographies, folk tales, and puts them on movie screens to entertain the masses. When they do this, sometimes they have to change the story or point of view of the story to make it entertaining enough to make money. Sometimes, this can include scripts related to mental health. A director takes a very real psychiatric and medical condition, such as Alzheimer’s disease,and displays it on screen to evoke some sort of emotion from the audience. The movie, Still Alice, is one case where
This extremity of emotion brings her to downfall. Her tendency to limit her own abilities by her nature of fixed habits or unmovable convictions isolates Alice from her community and distorts her features. She had once been a beautiful girl but grows into a woman with a head too large for her body. This is symbolic of her self-consumption, loneliness, and illusions. “I am becoming old and queer. If Ned comes he will not want me.” (Anderson 117). She grows to support the theme of life in death, living within her own imagination and memory to the point that her head is nearly expanding under the stress. She denies herself the reality of life by narrowing the experience to a dream world. By making absolute convictions and believing her own lies, Alice refuses to meld her worlds of dream and reality together. For example, Will Hurley, the man who walks her home from Church meetings, is an impostor into her narrowly constructed universe and thus she does not want to...
Still Alice is a 2009 novel by Lisa Genova that outlines the challenges a woman faces after she is diagnosed with early-onset dementia. The book was adapted into a film of the same name in 2014. Alice Howland is the main character in the book. She is a Harvard cognitive psychology professor and also a world renowned linguistics expert. Her family is successful and comprises of Dr. John Howland who is a leading cancer researcher and three adult children.
Still Alice, a heart-wrenching movie that illuminates the life of a linguistics professor at Columbia University who is happily married with children and is suddenly comforted with a life altering illness that infects her everyday life and relationship with her family. Alice is diagnosed with Early-onset Alzheimer’s disease at the age of 50, due to the progression of the disease Alice is forced to accept that life will never be the same for her, and it was only a matter of time that she wouldn’t even remember her children’s names.
The film focuses mainly on two characters Adele and Emma. Adele is a high school teacher who is starting to explore her inner self as a adult. She dates men but finds no satisfaction with them sexually, and is ignored by a close friend who she does find attractive. She dreams of something more, she meets Emma a free spirited girl whom Adele’s friends reject due to her newly found sexual orientation, and by association, begin to reject Adèle herself. The relationship
The writer of this novel, Alice Hoffman, is commonly known for her well developed characterization, her choice and use of language and realistic plot events. Born in New York City on March 16, 1952, Hoffman has become a very distinguished novelist. She attended Adelphi University and later the Stanford University Creative Writin...
The film that is being used for the movie analysis is “Enough”, this movie was chosen due to the fact that it is based on domestic violence towards women. The movie begins with in Los Angeles diner were a waitress named slim works with her best friend Ginny (Kazan, 2002). While working her shift slim has a customer that starts harassing her over the name she has, but the companion of the annoying customer defends slim, which in turn starts a romance, later to become a marriage between the two (Kazan, 2002). The couple is later blessed with a daughter they name Gracie, and at the beginning the marriage seems to be a fairy tale out of a story book (Kazan, 2002). The fairy tale becomes a nightmare as time moves forwards for the couple,