Fem Film

There was some great content in this feminism section of class. One of the animations was overtly political (the court one) but other than that I had a hard time seeing the political side of this. It was a bit confusing to me that Dove made that video about talking to young girls about the problems with the beauty industry, when as far as I have been led to believe they are one. Nevertheless it was pretty good stuff, and disturbing in a good way, highlighting the terrible things people will subject their body to in order to look like the ideal person, or have the perfect body. The video about the sad family was also very good, not just because of the story about the horrible mistreatment of the women being sexually abused, but the amazing combination of mediums in art were quite amazing. It is hard to picture drawn animation, mixed with stop motion, mixed with live action working in a film but the transitions, and movements work well and don’t distract my mind from the story, but make me much more interested in it. It’s important we have more of these films, they have something to say, and I have not really seen men say these things.