Tag Archives: Film
What Feminism Isn’t: Myth #3
And here’s yet another common myth about feminism that’s due to be debunked: 3) Feminism Isn’t Lionizing Women At a film fest several months back, I enjoyed a spirited dinner in the company of a male film critic, a male film director and a female producer. The men were discussing a film neither the producer […]
What Makes A Fantastic Woman?
The great Feminist writer, Simone de Beauvoir, famously stated in her landmark book, The Second Sex, “One is not born a woman, one becomes one.” I was reminded of this radical statement while viewing A Fantastic Woman. One of the most compelling films of 2017, A Fantastic Woman, does exactly what cinema should — challenge […]
No Way To Treat Your Mother, Aronofsky
Darren Aronofsky claims MOTHER is an allegorical film that uses the Book of Genesis to depict the destruction of Mother Earth. I saw a thinly-veiled excuse to torture a woman, bordering on the pornographic, with the take away message: women are disposable and there’s always another one waiting in the wings to replace us. The […]