Why I’ve Had Trouble Buying Hollywood’s Version Of Girl Power

I know the desire for comforting, triumphant situations that begin with "The Sea's Vengeance" and end with "On the Bed." But in 2018, I can't find any comfort in them.

Ellison Wallmore Buzzfeed News Reporter Published on December 20, 2018 at 5:08 pm

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I even started to think it was troubling when I noticed that the rant on the Ruth Bader Ginzburg statue I received in the mail actually said something like that.

It was a new 6-inch release from a company that produces Pope Francis, Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton as well as a line of cosmetics with childish audit sunglasses and sparkles under the title Snow Ring Road. This figure is not for anyone or anyone else - more this, the PR assured me that a share of the money made from its global span on Kickstarter, which it represents, would be donated to the company that makes money. But the branding scared me: "Wire-framed glasses for seeing patriarchal shit through patriarchy," said the manufacturer's scheme, and also, "Heeled moccasins for standing in the overall rise against the oppressor." "The image of this ad, laced with feminist text, suggested the idea that to acquire this collection of plastic gizmos was to go forward and reach out to officials with a modest contribution of $19. 99.

This feeling was not even remotely present in Ginzburg itself. I pray that the 85-year-old old woman will continue to live, thrive and work for thousands of years. I find her state of well-being more symbolic than any other, my personal grandmother or grandfather's. But the result was a nervous doll. This was just one time from the set, and while many examples like Ginzburg's and the broadest ideas of women's equality are rather compressed, this reminded me of how low my tolerance for this adherence had fallen. The gap between this crowdfunding tip and my personal, pierced desperation, the investment in real women's thriving that she gave, was practically unbearable. Would I like to talk to the general manager about this product? No.

Two featur e-films on Ginsberg were released this year, but both scriptwrites were applied to the Supreme Court, and it can be said that it is a "collected image" that can be called an icon rather than a wart face. The first work, Betzy West and Julie Cohen's documentary "RBG", was released in the movie theater in May, and you could get a glimpse of Ginsberg's brilliant career and education, and it was a rarely noticeable box office phenomenon. It is. This documentary is not critical to her recent memoirs (I have her mug in my room with "HERSTORY IN THE MAKING!" " He was talking to, but he still suspended his sizzling biography and handed her wrist against Trump's remarks. Similarly, you can be a celebrity if you are polite.

Felicity Jones interpreted Ginsberg's Sanri o-like interpretation, played a young law student, Madam, mother, and finally Professor, and Army Hummer plays her husband and colleague's lawyer Martin.

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Felicity Jones plays Ruth Vader Gindsberg in the movie "ON THE BASIS OF SEX".

The movie depicts the 1972 historical incident in charge by the Ginsbergs, but the main melody, Johns, who plays the role of loose, spreads his eyes, enters the men's room, clenched his chin, and is a cinematic determination. It is composed by repeating shots that raise. The colleague immediately noticed her. The film fixes Ginsberg as a series of impressive GIFs that appear in the future, while highlighting the possibility of a lon g-standing gender discrimination with the excuse for anger.

In 2018, the slogan was abundant, not only a light call for women's empowerment, but also the reason why women should be full of anger and nightmares, far beyond the framed goods and soft cinema of Ginsberg. 。 A similar call was heard not only in the movie world of this year, but also in the TV world, from Oceans Eight to the latest season of House of Card without Kevin Spacey. Some were realistic, and some were catastrophically calculated. < SPAN> Two featur e-films on Ginsberg have been released this year, but both scriptwrites have been applied to the Supreme Court, and it can be said that it is an icon that can be called an icon rather than a wart face. The first work, Betzy West and Julie Cohen's documentary "RBG", was released in the movie theater in May, and you could get a glimpse of Ginsberg's brilliant careers and education, and it was a rarely noticeable box office phenomenon. It is. This documentary is not critical to her recent memoirs (I have her mug in my room with "HERSTORY IN THE MAKING!" " He was talking to, but he still suspended his sizzling biography and handed her wrist against Trump's remarks. Similarly, you can be a celebrity if you are polite.

Felicity Jones interpreted Ginsberg's Sanri o-like interpretation, played a young law student, Madam, mother, and finally Professor, and Army Hummer plays her husband and colleague's lawyer Martin.

Jonathan Wenx / Focus Features

Felicity Jones plays Ruth Vader Gindsberg in the movie "ON THE BASIS OF SEX".

The movie depicts the 1972 historical incident in charge by the Ginsbergs, but the main melody, Johns, who plays the role of loose, spreads his eyes, enters the men's room, clenched his chin, and is a cinematic determination. It is composed by repeating shots that raise. The colleague immediately noticed her. The film fixes Ginsberg as a series of impressive GIFs that appear in the future, while highlighting the possibility of a lon g-standing gender discrimination with the excuse for anger.

In 2018, the slogan was abundant, not only a light call for women's empowerment, but also the reason why women should be full of anger and nightmares, far beyond the framed goods and soft cinema of Ginsberg. 。 A similar call was heard not only in the movie world of this year, but also in the TV world, from Oceans Eight to the latest season of House of Card without Kevin Spacey. Some were realistic, and some were catastrophically calculated. Two featur e-films on Ginsberg were released this year, but both scriptwrites were applied to the Supreme Court, and it can be said that it is a "collected image" that can be called an icon rather than a wart face. The first work, Betzy West and Julie Cohen's documentary "RBG", was released in the movie theater in May, and you could get a glimpse of Ginsberg's brilliant careers and education, and it was a rarely noticeable box office phenomenon. It is. This documentary is not critical to her recent memoirs (I have her mug in my room with "HERSTORY IN THE MAKING!" " He was talking to, but he still suspended his sizzling biography and handed her wrist against Trump's remarks. Similarly, you can be a celebrity if you are polite.

Felicity Jones interpreted Ginsberg's Sanri o-like interpretation, played a young law student, Madam, mother, and finally Professor, and Army Hummer plays her husband and colleague's lawyer Martin.

Jonathan Wenx / Focus Features

Felicity Jones plays Ruth Vader Gindsberg in the movie "ON THE BASIS OF SEX".

The movie depicts the 1972 historical incident in charge by the Ginsbergs, but the main melody, Johns, who plays the role of loose, spreads his eyes, enters the men's room, clenched his chin, and is a cinematic determination. It is composed by repeating shots that raise. The colleague immediately noticed her. The film fixes Ginsberg as a series of impressive GIFs that appear in the future, while highlighting the possibility of a lon g-standing gender discrimination with the excuse for anger.

In 2018, the slogan was abundant, not only a light call for women's empowerment, but also the reason why women should be full of anger and nightmares, far beyond the framed goods and soft cinema of Ginsberg. 。 A similar call was heard not only in the movie world of this year, but also in the TV world, from Oceans Eight to the latest season of House of Card without Kevin Spacey. Some were realistic, and some were catastrophically calculated.

It was a harsh year: We were #MeTo o-The year when we saw some suspects are trying to return to water and are ready to return, we hear Kabano occupation. Looking at the fact that there were actually no victims, it was quite "ideal", so if this consideration would be troublesome, the objective election would be snow-white-women. When the voting and how the colored women were voting (when they actually had all the voting opportunities), a considerable gap was assigned. It was an immutable reminder year that nothing actually happened or no t-I did not make i t-literally there was no solidarity.

And these are one of the reasons that I seem to be empty, with a rough statement based on the spirit of "women's power" and the applause based on the spirit of "debate Patria curtic". They are often used for this, declared joint transactions, have inter sector participating in this much more difficult job, and are very ambitious people working together, hiding from the eyes of third parties. , Talk to the reporter over time and "TYAPLYA P-Return to your cone.

As a result, I know the desires of the comfort of rationalization of women's unity and finding comfort in the situation of a happy woman's victory. But I didn't arrange this. Both movies about Ginsburg are wonderful. Including toys. I know that people have all the chances of finding joy, and that they have the chance to find their own personal separation. However, I have become more and more comfortable. It is an image that is dirty, difficult, and difficult to be a woman or a young woman in this world. And these films are too elemental and have the ability.

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Assassination Nation (from left to right): Abra, Odessa Young, Hari Nef, Bitch Waterhouse. < SPAN> It was a harsh year: We have been #METO O-The year when we saw some suspects are trying and preparing to return, we occupy Kabano Looking at the hearing of the hearing, reminding me that there were actually no victims, and because they were quite "ideal," they would believe it if this idea was troublesome, the objective election is snow--. White-Women's voting and how colored women voted (when they actually have all the voting opportunities) are assigned a considerable gap at the same time. It was an immutable reminder year that nothing actually happened or no t-I did not make i t-literally.

And these are one of the reasons that I seem to be empty, with a rough statement based on the spirit of "women's power" and the applause based on the spirit of "debate Patria curtic". They are often used for this, declared joint transactions, have inter sector participating in this much more difficult job, and are very ambitious people working together, hiding from the eyes of third parties. , Talk to the reporter over time and "TYAPLYA P-Return to your cone.

As a result, I know the desires of the comfort of rationalization of women's unity and finding comfort in the situation of a happy woman's victory. But I didn't arrange this. Both movies about Ginsburg are wonderful. Including toys. I know that people have all the chances of finding joy, and that they have the chance to find their own personal separation. However, I have become more and more comfortable. It is an image that is dirty, difficult, and difficult to be a woman or a young woman in this world. And these films are too elemental and have the ability.

Monica Leak / Neon / Everette-Collection

Assassination Nation (from left to right): Abra, Odessa Young, Hari Nef, Bitch Waterhouse. It was a harsh year: We were #MeTo o-The year when we saw some suspects are trying to return to water and are ready to return, we hear Kabano occupation. Looking at the fact that there were actually no victims, it was quite "ideal", so if this consideration would be troublesome, the objective election would be snow-white-women. When the voting and how the colored women were voting (when they actually had all the voting opportunities), a considerable gap was assigned. It was an immutable reminder year that nothing actually happened or no t-I did not make i t-literally there was no solidarity.

And these are one of the reasons that I seem to be empty, with a rough statement based on the spirit of "women's power" and the applause based on the spirit of "debate Patria curtic". They are often used for this, declared joint transactions, have inter sector participating in this much more difficult job, and are very ambitious people working together, hiding from the eyes of third parties. Talk to the reporter over time and "TyaPlya p-Please return to your cone.

As a result, I know the desires of the comfort of rationalization of women's unity and finding comfort in the situation of a happy woman's victory. But I didn't arrange this. Both movies about Ginsburg are wonderful. Including toys. I know that people actually have all opportunities to find joy, and that they have the chance to find their own personal separation. However, I have become more and more comfortable. It is an image that is dirty, difficult, and difficult to be a woman or a young woman in this world. And these films are too elemental and have the ability.

Monica Leak / Neon / Everette-Collection

Assassination Nation (from left to right): Abra, Odessa Young, Hari Nef, Bitch Waterhouse.

I didn't see Assassination Nation at Sundance in January. I discovered it in September, when it bombed in theaters and failed to find an audience for its smug, progressive take on the Salem witch trials. The film itself was nothing special, a dark comedy about a group of teenage girls fighting back against a bunch of men who accuse them of revealing the digital secrets of a major city. But the selection of Assassination Nation as a more commercially viable gamble among other bombastic, glamorous efforts from female directors like The Tale, The Shirkers, Skateboard Kitchen and The Miseducation of Cameron Post set the tone.

In a statement after its disastrous opening weekend, the head of Neon, which released the film later this year, said he was disappointed with the numbers but that they endorsed the film's quality. "(Director) Sam Levinson's response to the dumpster fire of 2018 was fearless, visionary and ultimately cathartic." I don't think so, but what I definitely saw in 2018 was the way the film was promoted -- as a women's anthem (#SlayEm) wrapped in a vow often used to appeal to male audiences -- certainly. It's uninhibited, radical, real, and gives bigots a chance to get over it. The company's chief advertiser spoke to Variety magazine and revealed that they were having trouble advertising the film. "We're making a film about a powerful young man who represents the fair sex, and because he's fair, people are in danger," he said. Some of the footage in the trailer includes a revolver aimed at a video camera and a woman lifting her shirt to show her bra, and it's a transactional statement to hear that advertising was not allowed because the conditions for using different sites were not met. Barry Wetcher / Warner Bros. / Everett Collection

Movie "Ocean's 8" (links): Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, Rihanna, Mindy Kaling, Aquafina, Helena Bonham Carter, Anne Hathaway, Sarah Paulson.

Companies were more justified and, in fact, were willing to pay for content offered as feminist, as long as it was in a context they felt comfortable with. In June, the film "Eight Oceans" was released, marking the finale of a gender-shifting series. As a starting point, you can arrest a great trilogy with Steven Soderbergh's heist-themed blockbuster. Warner Bros. gathered a cool acting troupe (Cate Blanchett! Rihanna!) and placed them in a series of unimaginable images. And how I dreamed and then was hindered before the arrangement film that came out as a concept, with repeated silences, as if a flyer affixed to the script read, "Insert incident here."

A few months later, I never had a chance to throw his apologetic semi-seriousness out of my head with the Ocean movie. Was it intentional? Did the company really think effectively which women want this? This is really what women wanted, to the fact that they spent almost $300 million, and I was kind of exhausted, complained about how unforgiving I found it all so unpleasant, that A Blessed Placed Turn Up Cover is even happier? What really hurt me, for example, was that a bunch of the tops were of the opinion that it didn't make sense - in fact, the idea of ​​"8 in the Ocean" was a basic, not a cutting-edge result, and in fact, if we're talking about similar necessary milestones, a hasty sketch is absolutely enough. And from a financial perspective, they were right.

This year, I didn't like it very much-what I thought I liked, or what I thought would be like. In October, "Halloween" and "Susperia" were released. It was a horror movie that promised a story about a woman who had experienced historical and personal injuries, but was eventually built in the context of men. Halloween is as if David Gordon Green, a sequel to a series of works produced by John Carpenter, depicts 3rd generation women, as if the fans are trying to make them more thoughtful than him. I still don't know that I have been praised. It is much more exciting than the Silent Slasher Michael Mayers survived after the podcaster couples who are excited to respond to the interview and the psychiatrist who are desperate to understand the most famous patients. It was incorporated into this movie. However, the movie itself could not wipe off the impulses, starting with a famous murderer, returning to his face in the mask many times as if puzzled, and looking for hints on the essence of the inside.

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Tilda Swinton of the movie "Susperia".

Regarding Susperia, the 1977 "Ballet Witch" directed by Dario Algento, directed by Luke Guadanino, the work of Luke Guadanino, the second half of the Women's Music Festival. 。 From the Holocaust to the Red Army faction, and one of the heroines to scold the doctor who was involved with a woman as a delusion. But I couldn't find anything special there. Even worse, while watching the movie, everything that was sedimented in my bones, what happened in the screen, was in the war against the death of his wife, Dr. Joseph Klemperer. I was able to remove a readable survival, which was a kind of guilt that I experienced for responsibility, a kind of fantastic projection. The fact that Tilda Swinton gave a large amount of makeup (in triple copy) seemed to be a proof of this idea and at the same time the opposite excuse-this was a movie about women, and in fact. If it's a movie about a man's suffering, at least this man would be able to play a woman.

These are the second of the great TV series of the genre "Ladies Above All" that left me indifferent, but they were not the only ones. The new Netflix series "Sabrina Adventures" (more witches!) was fun and entertaining, but I could not understand, for example, the parallel existence of three interests: devil worship and social allegiance. The streaming service also placed the show by Robin Wright, who inherited in the finishing season, House of Cards - "the snow symbol - the middle man who was semi-finished," in Tizer, where her heroine was planned from the very beginning and there was no shift caused by disgrace, as for example, for example, disappeared by Kevin Spacey. But in the finishing season, a glimpse of something was in the way that the heroine Wright tried to apply a statement about sexism, in the finished office, the screenwriters failed to rethink the series to free him from the shadow of the deceased, but not one man's head away. Beau Willimon, the creator of House of Carts who left the series two seasons ago, wrote the awards season hope Mary Queen of Scots, a drama recurring with Saoirse Ronan and Margot Robbie. "Nobody" bows, "He blew the trumpet once from the poster," which actually needs a bold "wake-up call," but in exchange this has become a nightmare. And Wright, Ronan, and Robbie aren't the only ones playing vulnerable interpretations of powerful female characters. Alicia Vikander in the new Tomb Raider, Claire Foy in the supporting role of The Girl in the Web, and Nicole Kidman in the futuristic cop drama Destroyer, are essentially three units of photo-evidence (I don't like it, it's actually become a type!) that have the ability to be associated with the expectation of a rather masculine idea of ​​ruggedness. The film "Destroyer" touches my heart somewhat because it was shot by Jennifer's Body director Karin Kusama, whose career I have seen quite a few years ago. Kidman leaves her wig and old makeup behind and bursts into the house of Los Angeles detective Erin Bell, brandishing a weapon. After watching this film, I felt a deep desire for something I have been craving, but have rarely encountered, for example, through art by women, for women, and about the representation of the weaker sex, without needing to assert itself.