Feminist film free write

Video 1-  the harsh sound felt like slaps for every time i thought about admiring the woman's body as a collection of things, of objects. She showed us only pieces of curves and lashes, tempting us to reduce her to the sum of her parts, like Hannah Hoch's Beautiful Girl. She distracts us with the shattering snap before we can romantasize her inches.  I think the army un-trains that way, tempt and slap, tempt and slap.  I wonder if Brecht would have admired this video- it seems that he was always looking to slap his audience before they could sit back and relax.
The stripteaser used this same effect of fractured images to define objectification. Without  acting, a striptease is just a series of still poses. Like a doll, we pose her in fractures to take off her clothes. 
Submitted by Gianna on Wed, 11/14/2007 - 10:45pm. Gianna's blog | login or register to post comments | printer friendly version