Atonement, or The Beatchez Alwaiz Lye!

[lavendertook]

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.

Comments

[ide-cyan.livejournal.com]

You can't mix icky materialism with universal and/or eternal values. And women in books are just supposed to be allegories for something, anyhow. (And if they're not treated as such, that's because the men are brilliant geniuses and everybody needs to ask them what their secret is and worship at their altar.)

[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

Ahahaha! Yup--I figure there are plenty in that school of thought, or lack thereof, who would say, "But you're missing the point . . . it's about truth and lies and storytelling and you just analyze things too much!"