Director: Jennifer Siebel Newsom, Kimberlee Acquaro; Writer: Jacoba Atlas, Jessica Congdon; Filmed: Los Angeles, California
The cultural influence of this film: Show the under estimated classification of women and how they are treated in this world and perceived. This documentary explores a different aspect of society through the mistreatment of women in America.
The cultural influence of this film: Show the under estimated classification of women and how they are treated in this world and perceived. This documentary explores a different aspect of society through the mistreatment of women in America.
This film is all about how women are misrepresented in the American society. Women are portrayed as needing to be very skinny and looking like dolls almost and the sexuality of their roles in society are to be seductive. The attire that today is young women wear is seductive and cause teenage girls to be perceived as too fat or too skinny. If they are too skinny, people jump to the conclusion that they have an eating disorder. The second concept is centered on gender when women feel that they need to change themselves in order to attract the opposite sex. Women feel that they need to be feminine in order to be classified as the female sex and that reduces their confidence and the freedom to be whoever they wish to be. The anthropological perspective of this movie was centered on the female figure and how in today’s society, girls will be judged based on their figure and how they are presented to the males of this generation. Sexuality and gender were two key concepts that best describe the documentary in a small summary.
From a personal perspective, this film opened my eyes to all the different aspects of society that I have not thought of being degrading. For instance, the movies classify women as the damsel in distress and rarely, the protagonist who wins the battle. Women are used in the media as a sex object and that just makes me furious in a lot of sense because as we get older and think about having families. What worries me the most is how my children would be treated and the judgments that they will get from being who they are and liking sports rather than putting makeup on. Models are a great example of falsification in the media, the photo shopping that goes into making a cover of a magazine is ridiculous and it gives the wrong message to little children and even young adults about the way their bodies should look. I really enjoyed this movie and all that it stood for, however, I wish it would not put so much blame on men but rather the concept of media because men are encouraged to change who they are for photos or for jobs a lot more than the population would suspect.
From a personal perspective, this film opened my eyes to all the different aspects of society that I have not thought of being degrading. For instance, the movies classify women as the damsel in distress and rarely, the protagonist who wins the battle. Women are used in the media as a sex object and that just makes me furious in a lot of sense because as we get older and think about having families. What worries me the most is how my children would be treated and the judgments that they will get from being who they are and liking sports rather than putting makeup on. Models are a great example of falsification in the media, the photo shopping that goes into making a cover of a magazine is ridiculous and it gives the wrong message to little children and even young adults about the way their bodies should look. I really enjoyed this movie and all that it stood for, however, I wish it would not put so much blame on men but rather the concept of media because men are encouraged to change who they are for photos or for jobs a lot more than the population would suspect.