Thelma And Louise Research Paper

Film Research paper

The view of rape in the early 90’s in Thelma and Louise movie

In the movie of Thelma and Louise there is an unclear situation is spurred from a brush with rape. There’s one of the lead characters, Thelma, who at the beginning of the movie was kind of seen as a very oblivious and naïve lady. After a great night at a bar, a man attempted to rape her in the parking lot. Thelma’s girlfriend Louise appeared on the scene to come rescue her. She was so pissed of what her best friend just victim of that she ended up killing the rapist.

Throughout the whole movie there were lot of crimes committed. The two main characters Thelma and Louise was on the run. The movie clearly shown that the issue of rape was a theme that was central to the plot of the film. In the late 80’s, rape had seen as a woman’s issue, but it happened that men didn’t take clear responsibility of the issue; this issue wasn’t generally accepted when a lady decided to pursue a certain, if any, amount justice. This belief was clearly shown as evidence in the movie by the lead characters. She was automatically taking the decision to put an end with the offender on her own and tried to escape free but the aftermath was not what they planned to do.

While Thelma and Louise were on the run, the viewers realized that Louise might have been victim of raped in the Texas as it just happens to Thelma.

Now the audience start to realized that, she was acting like that for her, not only because Thelma is her best friend but because she was also a victim of that issue. For many years she had kept silence. There was a social and judicial stigma associated with the view of rape in the movie in the late 80’s. As seen in the movie, the authorities didn’t associate the crimes committed against these women as rape. The policemen was dismissed the situation as a formality in a higher type of criminal

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Throughout the movie, the audience could clearly understand that familiar messages shown in the film’s narrative, the viewers see how issue of rape was handled during that time period. This behavior toward such human atrocity begs the question: what are the progress the society have made on the issue of rape since the early 90’s in which the movie Thelma and Louise had taken place? In of other for us to analyze the current position of rape issue in our society nowadays. It is necessary to identify the flaws present in the approach to rape view in a historical manner.
Newspapers and articles from early 90’s, in addition to other sources reporting legal and my causal trends with consideration to rape scene in the late 80’s.