Its a movie for us. star wars used to be focused on the fanboys. the force awakens built off their nostalgia, but TLJ? kylo’s and rey’s relationship was clearly calculated to appeal a femaleaudience. i mean just look at this:
intimate hand holding:
shirtless kylo:
prince & snow white:
“join me. please”
we have truly come a long way from the days of slave bikini leia.
ultimately, episode IX might not be as female-oriented (I don’t really have high expectations of JJ, but that’s another story), but I’ll still always be grateful to rian johnson for this movie. he made TLJ with us in mind, and I’m so happy for that.
I still hold out hope for JJ to deliver to us because this go round, females made a huge impact in the box office, so it would be unwise of him to ignore that. I’m just hoping this means for shirtless Kylo
It’s true. TLJ is female gaze where old films were male.
Today i watched this unreal masterpiece for the second time. Cèline Sciamma’s Portrait Of a Lady On Fire paints(its a movie) a vivid at the same time gloomy nature of a tender lesbian relationship between two young french women in the eighteenth century. Every frame of the film feels like a painting. It starts off as a film about glances and stares and slowly(not in a negative sense) unfolds itself into a reverie of a cathartic experience. Sciamma focussed on the power of a female gaze. She dares to tell us a lesbian story through the eyes of the women living it. She also touches the taboo subject of abortion. This movie immerses us into oceanic hues, lush canvas close ups and mystery of love. Outside we hear blowing of the wind and rushing of waves which juxtaposes with the inner turmoil these women are facing. The transformation of their memoir into their marker is shown with a perfect emotional arc for both the characters. It is filled with unforgettable moments especially the last scene which is one of most powerful shot i have ever seen. Sciamma’s film is carefully structured with beatiful shots by Claire Mathon.
“The very particular place of the photograph of a woman in contemporary culture means we scarcely pause to take a second or prolonged look, but swipe swiftly on. This unequal treatment of photographs of women unfortunately connects to a wider gender inequality that affects every single country in the world. If we aren’t able to see more than an expression of feminism or femininity in a photograph of a female figure, how can we expect to see more than this when we encounter women elsewhere?”
