Wednesday, May 22, 2013

                                                                 THELMA AND LOUISE

           Thelma and Louise was a great film about being an outlaw but with a twist.  Generally these types of movies feature men in the main rolls.  They're in the desert, wanted by the police, doing bold masculine things.  This created quite a stir in the viewers of the film saying that it was attacking men and a male bashing film.                       In John Leos review, the bashes the film for being a feminist film, where every male is out to get the likable main women of the film.  The two main girls of the film are running from the law because they killed a man, but a man who was a dirty rapist.  He thinks that all of the men are portrayed as dominate, brutish and small minded in the film.

                 I do not agree with his review of the film and i very much enjoyed the film.  I think it was a very fresh take on the 'outlaw' film type.  Having two women in the roll where its was usually two men was actually very interesting and refreshing, and I never thought the film was male bashing at all.  Even if it did portray some men in not a very good light, that's how some humans really are out in the world, male or female.  There are rapists in the world, or men who think they are superior to women, just because a movie shows characters like these does not mean they are bashing the entirety of the male population.

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