Director Analysis
Even though it can be said that films represent the reality, some of the films do not represent the truth. The rise of the feminist movement in the year 1960 paved the way for the growth of feminist movies, which has helped shape the structure of the film industry. Some of the movies portrayed women’s symbols of sex. Also, they did not play primary roles in movies. They were treated as individuals who were not intelligent but always beautiful. Before the year 1990s, men alone played significant roles in writing and directing movies. The films produced in the 1990s had women who played major roles and directed the movies. Most of the movies depict that the women underwent tough times to get their men, but towards the end of the movies, the women ended up getting bigger weddings and acquired the big diamonds that they wanted. In some movies, the women are depicted as homemakers. They are supposed to stay at their homes, great their husbands when they come from work and watch over their families. Some of the movies illustrate how girls graduate from high school and wait for the right suitors. In the movie, “the father of the bride,” the girl called Banks is loved by the father and gets everything, but she awaits marriage after graduating from high school. The film illustrates how her father was against the church ceremony, but he had to give in at last. Such stories pass the information to the audience that women do not have a variety of options such that they are meant to marry and take care of their homes. The message passed to the audience is that the issue of female or male is something that is socially constructed, and it is passing as time goes.
Some of the movies portray women to be torn between good and bad morals. Some films present women as creatures that are useful in producing ad raising the children and not working outside their homes. The female is described as sexualized explicitly, and the moral of these stories showed that the bad things usually ended happening to such women. This was usually one kind of thing that passes information to the female audience that bad behavior will result in bad happenings to them. The films show the men as kings while the women are subordinate to their husbands. There are other movies that present the women as independent human, but at the end of the day, they still have to look for a man. The movies also depicted the women who could not stay without men, and if they did not get married and raise children, then they would be punished. These movies passed information to the female audience that they have to get married to be considered as doing the correct thing. Besides, it tells women the importance of taking care of their families, or else they would be punished. It shows that women can only find the happiness of they find men. Besides, the lives of women are not complete if they do not get married. In some of the movies, one scenario that occurs mostly to the feminine characters is to either pursue high education or choose marriage. These movies’ moral stories usually indicated how those who choose marriage ended up living good lives, while those who chose careers ended up living lonely lives. Such movies are meant to teach the female audience the significance of being submissive and raising their families compared to pursuing their careers. Just because one is a female, there is the limitation of focusing on one’s career, and they, therefore, need to focus on raising and taking care of their families
The lipstick Jungle this is a film that is directed by Melanie Mayron and ten other directors. The film depicts the error of opposition within time, representing the ideological and sociological scenarios. The movie is able to depict the character of the men and women in the traditional manner. The movie portrays the gender that has patriarchal privilege. The representation of certain characters in the film explains the social and political scenery. The movie portrays several characters who are mostly women that are educated, and they are white and highly educated. The movie takes place in postfeminism error, but it still depicts the image of the woman film. The film is able to question feminism and the social norms in the current error. The movies portray several signs of romance, feminity, wealth, social class, and respect, among others. Despite being shown as attractive modern women, self-employed and attractive, it does not change the fact that women are of low level and need to respect the ideas and thoughts of men. The movies pass the information to the female gender concerning their reality and their identity. The work of the women is to take care of their husband, and that is the only work the is recognized compared to their career.
Besides, even though women are proved to be independent, they are not able to challenge the power of the structure that exists. An example is in the film depict Wendy Healy as a woman who struggles with marriage difficulties. She belongs to a good economic status but remains unmarried. This describes that even though she is an independent woman with good economic status, she still has to depend on a man. She belongs to good economic status but still has to depend on a man for her to live happily. This is an event in the film that sends a clear message to women. It indicates that even though you are acceptable and respected, you still have to respect a man’s thoughts and ideas before considering your own.
Victoria Ford is also depicted as an independent woman. She is supposed to act in a manner that challenges the power structure that exists. This is evidenced by her behavior pondering the structure where the woman is supposed to take care of the woman’s needs, where she questions it and disapproves of it. She, however, tries to abide by the rules while she is affected emotionally. This makes her to eventually give up because she does not want to continue catering for her husband’s needs over her own. She ends up neglecting her children in the film, this social structure that requires a woman to consider the man’s needs before hers.
Besides, Nicoelly is another independent woman who is classy and of good economic status but struggles with the challenge of balancing the business and her family roles. This makes her end up struggling with marriage and live unhappy because she chooses to focus on her career. This clearly depicts how she struggles with balancing career and home life. She is seen to have good masculine traits as she is good at planning and organizing. However, she is limited by the fact that she is feminine and has to ensure she satisfies her husband, which she fails to do and ends up being unmarried.
In conclusion, the scenarios of the three successful women in the film try to pass the same messages to the audience. That the female is physically weak and is supposed to be submissive to their husbands without questioning men’s authority. The women are dependent on men, and if they focus on their career, they will end up living unhappy lives because of loneliness. The other message is that the women are responsible for nurturing their families both physically and mentally. Despite the fact that the three women have good jobs and belong to high economic status, they do not have respect, and they have failed to balance between their social lives and work lives which should be left for their male counterparts