Thelma and Louise escaped for a weekend getaway. These were two women that wanted to get away from their day to day lives and live a little. Louise had her own place, car and a job at the diner. Thelma was longing and regretful of her early marriage to her husband, Darrell. Since the young age of 16, she has been with the same man. Thelma had accepted her life and the way she was treated. Louise didn’t think highly of Darrell and thought Thelma could do much better. As they were on their way, Thelma admitted to only leaving Darrell a note. Louise is the leader of the two women and wants Thelma to have her fun. Harlan is a local guy that hangs around and notices Thelma. He begins to give her attention, which she doesn’t get from Darrell. …show more content…
Hal may think that the women must have gone through something for all of this to occur and believes that they need a chance to make things right. I do think that Hal holds them responsible but is not willing to punish them like the rest of the law enforcement officers. At a certain point in the movie, Thelma and Louise come to a point of no return and I don’t think they even realize it until towards the end. It is as if they are taking out their bad life experiences on others and doing as they please. Thelma and Louise assert themselves as strong women who do not need a man to revolve their lives around and want to prove to themselves and to each other that they can make it on their own, together. Taking charge and being bold, not taking crap from anyone makes them feel alive. For once in their lives they call the shots. Life did not necessarily deal them a bad hand, I think they feel sorry for themselves which in my opinion makes them more dangerous because they excuse all of their actions with irrational thoughts. The immature behavior caused from being somewhat sheltered also played a role in a large part of Thelma’s decision. At the beginning of this journey I don’t think that Louise thought it would go as far
Steel Magnolias is a movie about the lives of six southern women and the drama that unfolds during a difficult period in their lives. As you can probably guess, there are tears, laughter and drama galore. The move is set in Chinquapin Parish, a small southern town in rural Louisiana. During the opening credits it draws you into the peaceful small town charm: beautiful homes, lush landscapes, blooming trees, shrubs and people lounging on their front porch. A young woman walks across a town that appears to be pulled straight from a Norman Rockwell painting, then gunshots! It’s the wedding day and there can be no birds pooping on the reception. You just got on the roller coaster; hang on! This movie will bring about every emotion you have
Sex, love, depression, guilt, trust, all are topics presented in this remarkably well written and performed drama. The Flick, a 2014 Pulitzer Prize winning drama by Annie Baker, serves to provide a social commentary which will leave the audience deep in thought well after the curtain closes. Emporia State Universities Production of this masterpiece was a masterpiece in itself, from the stunningly genuine portrayal of the characters of Avery and Rose, to the realism found within the set, every aspect of the production was superb.
Both Nora and Louise's lives have been shaped and molded to conform to their husbands' wishes. At the time these stories took place, it was basically unheard of for women to assert their beliefs or to act upon their ideas. As a result, Louise was forced to succumb to the role of an obedient wife, in order to abide by the norms of society. This is apparent because of the way she reacts when she learns of a false rumor regarding her husband's sudden death. While in deep thought, and staring out the window by herself, she has a sudden realization of complete happiness and total freedom. As she tries hard to repress these fresh, new feelings, she speaks the words, "free, free, free" (23)! These words help the audience to understand the repression she has been forced to withstand for many years. She feels sudden exhilaration as she reflects on what her new life will bring her. She speaks of the treatmen...
Early in the novel, the roots of Louise’s issues are easy to trace to her resentment of her sister and the attention she commanded, resulting in my initial disregard for her as, to use a colloquialism, a whiner. Indeed, I did not at all identify with this other than my experience with younger siblings (I am the oldest.) whining in much the same way about me. This certainly made it easy for me to create an objective distance from Louise and in fact, made it possible for me to tolerate listening to her since I could see nothing in her like me -- she was no threat and even though I didn‘t like her, it was more a matter of taste than sensibility.
The 1967 movie Valley of the Dolls connects to Susan Sontag’s definition of camp in her essay “Notes on ‘Camp.’” Its characters act seriously in the film, the world inside is an entertaining comic that fosters laughter, and everything is seen in quotation marks.
Berkove also says the story is not at all about marriage, but about Louise. The story is missing evidence of where the husband is supposal living for his wife. All these examples support the fact thesis of Louise is self-absorbed.
Louise left the country to go stay with Albert Hardy and his family in the city, so she could attend school. Louise was very lonely growing up, her mother died when she was an infant and her father never showed her much love. When moving to the city she found herself to be even lonelier than before. Although she was living with the Hardy family which consisted of Mr. Albert, his two daughters, and his son John Hardy. Louise craved some type of companionship. Louise had a plan to make John Hardy her new companion, she
1980. Warner Bros. Directed by Stanley Kubrick. Music by Wendy Carlos and Rcachel Elkind. Cinematography by John Alcott. Editing by Ray Lovejoy. With Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd.
Louise has turned into a little girl that must depend on man to take care of her. Louise pleads with Brently to go to the gardens of Paris. She begs like a child begging for something that is impossible to give. Brently must lock her up in their home to protect her from her curiosity and need to see the world. The filmmakers do not give her the commonsense to realize the dangers she would face in seeing Paris and all the other places she would like to visit. Louise remains the little girl in the flashbacks and Brently has replaced her dead father as the soul keeper of her world. Brently must protect her from the world and herself. She is made to be completely dependent on him from her everyday needs to being her only window into the outside world. There are no female positions of authority in her life. Aunt Joe is left in the background and Marjorie must ultimately answer to Brently. Louise is left to see men as the only authority in her life. She herself as a woman must feel powerless to the will of men. Brently even chooses the destinations of their daily visits to far off and exotic places. These excursions are Louise's only escape. Brently is made to be her captor and savior at the same time. Her fate is completely dependent in his yet she is given no control of either.
Thelma and Louise knew that going back home couldn’t happen, because they didn’t want to live the rest of their life in prison. When they were on the road Thelma states, “Everything looks different, I feel awake.” It is evident that she was no longer going back to her controlling husband, and could now do whatever she desired to do. Although they had no idea where they were going, they knew they had to maintain moving forward and not look back. Mann declares that the ending didn’t, “Resist easy resolution or closure” (Mann). They fought to give up and surrender to the life they had before when they were about to get caught, so they went forward together to commit suicide. In the movie Gun Crazy Barton and Lori felt alone wanting to go back but couldn’t. Barton says, “We’re alone Lori, we have no place to go.” They felt alienated and were desperate to discover a place to stay without any money. Although the road did provide them with some sense of tranquility and freedom, it made them recognize they were isolated. Barton desired to go home but didn’t because Lori didn’t want to go to jail. When the police came they ended up killing them, because they didn’t want to surrender as
A boy Thelma trusted stole all of Louise’s savings and Thelma saw how Louise blamed her for it and was devastated because of the occurrence. This is important because when Thelma decides to rob a store, she made a decision. She knew this meant she couldn’t go back to her old life, but that’s what she wanted. She tells Louise to drive off to Mexico. Ultimately Thelma’s modifications are shown when they got stopped by a police officer, the moment Louise got put in the passenger seat of the cop car we see Thelma put a gun near the officer’s head and told him to let Louise go. Both of them put the officer in his trunk and locked him there. He tried to tell them that he had kids and a wife, but Thelma cut him off by telling him to be sweet to them “My husband wasn't sweet to me and look how I turned out.” This far out on their drive Thelma realized how suppressed she had felt all her life with the constrictions her husband put upon her. The federal agents that were trying to find the women talked to them and let them know about how they knew that they were heading to Mexico and the only way they would’ve known that was because the boy Thelma trusted told them. Thelma’s transfiguration becomes more extreme after that occurrence because Louise then yelled at her “We're fugitives now. Let's behave that way!” With every series of events, everything Louise acted upon, Thelma step by step wanted to
However, when she descends the stairs with her sister and discovers that her husband is still alive it kills her. She could not handle losing everything she thought she had just gained. Louise only just realized all that she could do with her new life and had previously shuddered at the thought of living a long life with Brently. Now that she had a taste of freedom, she could not go back to the life she lived before and the crushing disappointment kills her.
She is marginalize from society by her partner and she has to live in the shadows of him. She is unbelievably happy when she found out about the death of her husband. She expresses her feelings of freedom in her room where she realize she will live by herself. This illustrates that Louise has been living in an inner-deep life disconnected form the outside world where only on her room away from family and friends she discovers her feelings. It is important to mention that even though Louise has a sister, she does not feel the trust to communicate her sentiments towards her. We discover a marginalization from family members and more surprising from a women, Louise’s sister. The narrator strictly described Louise’s outside world but vividly reveals what is in her mind. At the same time she feels guilty of her emotional state by recognizing that she loved Brently mallard sometimes, her husband. Louise contradict herself but this demonstrates her emotional feelings about her husband disregarding her marriage. The situation of this woman represents the unhappiness and disgraceful life that women had to suffer from their
Originally, without any true knowledge of the play, I thought that Little Shop of Horrors would be a comical piece about a plant that eats people. Little did I know, that the play would be so much more than that. After leaving the theatre, I realized that the play illustrated that we are all a result of our actions, and at the end of the day we all have to pay the Pied Piper. The musical component within the play acted as a form of narration.
...tedly, but instead the idea that she no longer will have her husbands will forcing her to have no self-assertion, which was common of that time. By the last 3 paragraphs of the story Louise has come to full realization of what is to come.