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lavendertook) wrote2008-01-24 11:10 pm
lavendertook) wrote2008-01-24 11:10 pm
Atonement, or The Beatchez Alwaiz Lye!
I just went and saw a matinee of Atonement--ugh! Next time I decide to see a film because all the critics love it, remind me that most of those critics have mainstream white heteropatriarchal values that are forsooth yucky unto mine eyes. I'm so stupid not to do my research on the story before seeing a film like this because more often than not they piss me off.
If I knew this was a "poor nice guy falsely accused of rape by those lying bitches" story I would never have gone to see it. Because, you know, that's such an important story to tell over and over and over--how rape is horrible for the menz because menz gets accused falsely of rape. I mean, who cares that one in three or four women (and a percentage of men and significant percentage of transfolk) are sexually assaulted by men, and ALL women live lives constrained by that fact. It's silly of me to think of women as important outside of how they affect men.
Yes, the film is very pretty with very pretty people and a concise narrative; it's just the same old story of how women are liars and ruin men's lives and it's about time those bitches atoned for it. And if those pathetic spinster girls are going to get published, by golly, that's what they should write about if they are to attain tragically sympathetic status.
Thumbs down on this one.
If I knew this was a "poor nice guy falsely accused of rape by those lying bitches" story I would never have gone to see it. Because, you know, that's such an important story to tell over and over and over--how rape is horrible for the menz because menz gets accused falsely of rape. I mean, who cares that one in three or four women (and a percentage of men and significant percentage of transfolk) are sexually assaulted by men, and ALL women live lives constrained by that fact. It's silly of me to think of women as important outside of how they affect men.
Yes, the film is very pretty with very pretty people and a concise narrative; it's just the same old story of how women are liars and ruin men's lives and it's about time those bitches atoned for it. And if those pathetic spinster girls are going to get published, by golly, that's what they should write about if they are to attain tragically sympathetic status.
Thumbs down on this one.
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Who was your flistmate who posted about it? I'd love to go commiserate.
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In defense of well the academy: academic time being what it is, I wouldn't expect to see much about the film yet from any academic types (it's just out).
In terms of the novel, well, I hadn't heard about it and a lot of feminist literary academics don't spend a lot of time pointing out the heterosexim (or racism) in all the books out there; instead, they focus on the work that's different. When I write about feminist sf, I write about the feminist sf and don't waste my time reading/writing about all the sexist/racist stuff by the guyz.
I'm afraid these days (old and cynical) I assume most acclaimed and/or wildly film is going to be heterosexist, racist, and uphold normative "family" values and don't bother unless I see something in the previews that grabs me or hear a good buzz.
Slightly connected, the daily paper had big headlines about how much money COUPLES and COUPLES WITH CHILDREN can expect to get back from the Bush stimulus.
Us single types apparently don't get stimulated.
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And yeah--I don't know why my cynicism didn't kick in before I went to see it--hence my kicking myself in the head for being stupid. (-;
Geezus--I don't begrudge couples with children, but couples without children are way more economically privileged than us single folk--meh. And single folk with children--let's be real: WOMEN with children, the poorest of the poor, can just go hang themselves.
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No, I have no intention of seeing the movie, and I still grimace a bit at the endless ads for it. Sorry you wasted your time and money!
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5 Pissed-off LavenderTooks: Don't see this film unless you're planning on writing a letter to the editor of your newspaper complaining about the sexist bias of their film critics that endorse this bullshit.
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7 Pissed-off LavenderTooks: Get a lawyers number to carry with you and put on a few pairs of Depends under your regular underwear.
Have to think up what 1,2,3, and 4 are. (-:
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1 Pissed-off LavenderTooks: Don't go unless you've got a solid feminist support group to listen to the post-mortem.
2 Pissed-off LavenderTooks: Be prepared for audience reactions, because you will find yourself involuntarily denouncing offending sexist and heterosexist tropes out loud.
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Hmm, now onto 3 and 4 . . .
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