I was sick this whole week and so it just seemed like tradition to watch a movie while eating the only thing I could eat...popsicles. My sister got me the movie, The Proposal, and I watched it twice. I laughed and laughed until I realized what I was watching. I was watching a woman blackmailing a man. In most movies, it's the other way around. The men are usually the person in charge or the person with the power, but this time a woman was. Then I thought to myself, why are you being so stereotypical? I had just told myself that men are usually the ones with the most power. I basically just put myself down. After that I started thinking about our society.
There are many instances in life where it is ok for a man to do things, but not ok for a woman to do so. It seems pretty normal for some guys to be jerks, or for them to just rage because that's just what men do. If a girl goes nuts, she's just known as a crazy person. Men can have the bigger salary and be the worker bee, while women usually have the lower salary and are taking care of the kids. Why is society like this? Why was I so surprised and shocked when I saw a woman taking charge?
I see different ways of looking at this movie. Was it mocking the idea of women taking charge? Was it showing the future, that women will one day rise above the stereotypes? Was it just simply a funny story line? Whichever idea it was, it still made me wonder as to how we got our world to have those questions...maybe not the story line one.
With that, was I taking it too far? It was just a movie, and it probably was made just to make some money. The people writing it most likely did not think...what would make Mary get upset? But the people had to start somewhere, and a woman in charge did give the movie an interesting twist. Then that just leads me back to where I started...why is a woman in charge a twist?I guess I'll never really know the answer, but I can only hope for the best. Plus, while I'm waiting...I'll watch the movie again.
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First, I love that movie.
ReplyDeleteI noticed that too while watching the film- Sandra Bullock's work ethic and drive would be admired if she was a man. Instead, people only viewed her as an insensitive, selfish manipulator. I agree with you that it's unfair, but at the same time we have to ask ourselves how much we really respect the man in that same condition. Do we appreciate the characteristics when a guy presents them, or do we just condone it and blow it off as 'a guy thing'? Either way, it's wrong. I think that men and women should get the same consequences for acting the way they do, and a flaw in personality (or a great trait) should never be attributed as a 'guy' or 'girl' thing. When we do that, we limit ourselves by our gender and we can't get to our full potential.