I watched Blindness(2008) recently about a non blind woman during a pandemic of blindness and how she interacts with a ward full of blind people along with her husband.
This movie is universally reviled coz there is a rape scene where the women of the ward are coerced by some gangster types to prostitute themselves for sex in exchange for hoarded food and she is included and doesn't do anything.
Later on in the movie she finally snaps and kills the leader of the thugs and instigates an all out battle.
Now my question is why is she hated for this? If you took any average homemaker and put them in a slightly elevated position of power relative to a community it's not like they're going to start immediately solving the community's problems?!?!
why is there such hate for this scene? it is a moment of weakness and eventually causes her to snap and do the action the audience wanted - when in actuality it could have gone the other way and shown Julianne moore turning withdrawn and abandoning her community for not fighting for her?
It's so strange because even I had the visceral thought that she should have killed the thugs immediately but if I think of the women in my life, not one of them has any killer instinct and would have to be pushed waaaay past the edge to consider violently stabbing someone in the neck with a pair of scissors.
why was I bloodthirsty in that moment instead of empathetic? is it because of the setup of the movie? very strange.
Submitted March 25, 2020 at 05:12AM by mybannedalt https://ift.tt/2JftHdo