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The most (only?) likable character is female, I felt.
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Same here, and I agree with Calum about the unintentionally humorous aspects of New York Ripper -- it's a bit like Island of Death in that respect. Also, as a further digression, I found From Caligari to Hitler extremely heavy going (along with Barbara Creed's The Monstrous-Feminine) -- and that was only for an MA! Now, back on topic I think!
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Julia Kristeva is worse.
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Kristeva generally has the effect of making me feel incredibly stupid right before I throw her work out of the window. Anyways, as Nos said, back on topic...
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I read some other work and it is extremely hard going. When I decided to write my dissertation on The Exorcist, Rosemary's Baby And The Omen, I didn't think I'd be eye deep in feminist theory!
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Kristeva vaguely rings a bell from when I studied feminist theory as an undergraduate.
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Myself, I would obviously never advocate violence of any kind towards women (or anyone, for that matter), but I also wouldn't want to demean the opposite sex by thinking they're not strong enough or vocal enough to voice their own opinions. They certainly don't need the likes of me to come to their rescue and 'protect' them from horrible films like NYR. Because if we do believe that, what we're really saying is that we need to protect women from men who watch films like this - which is us! Yikes!
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I think your next sentence is a strange and sweeping statement though. Whilst I'm sure we would all agree that 'Virgin Witch' is a pretty misogynistic film, I can't imagine that anyone would think its sole purpose (or purpose to any degree) was to make people hate women! But it's still misogynistic. It also happens to be a film that I enjoy, despite this flaw (and a hundred others ). As Calum says, intent is another issue. The fact Jim Davidson doesn't think that he's racist hardly means that he's not racist... Meaning is never black and white, but I think that's why this is an interesting debate - though sorry to be off-topic! Last edited by TheOwlsAreNotWhatTheySeem; 15th June 2011 at 02:56 AM. |
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Well with so much evil, atrocity and stupidity out there it's probably not that important whether a film is presented in 2.00:1 ratio or 2.35:1 ratio either , and relatively that tagline bothers me a lot more!
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