This past year in Mr. Starace's Critical Thinking Class we have watched three films: The Persuaders, Merchants of Cool and Missrepresentation. These films clearly portrayed the same thing: media's effect on everyone. In the documentary Missrepresentation, we were shown how media breaks through the barriers we have put up in order to try to block out most of the media we have today. They use violence and over sexualize nearly everything we watch in order to get us to absorb what were watching. This past weekend I was watching the trailer for the movie Deadpool 2. While the movie may have been incredibly explicit and rated R for a multitude of reasons, I noticed some things in the movie that I can relate to this movie. In the one scene of her shown in the trailer she was seen sitting at home as a housewife waiting for Deadpool to get home. She is seen as this impatient, annoying housewife who is not doing anything. This is harmful to women as it portrays a false image of what woman are expected to be.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nefD7UOhLCo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nefD7UOhLCo
Which of the documentaries that we watched in class did you make an immediate or first connection to when seeing the character of a needy housewife?
ReplyDeleteThe expectations the media has created for women need to be brought to light and debunked, this is a highly repetitive pattern that is seriously getting old.
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