Analysis Of The Movie ' The Final Girl '

“End of Watch” is a fusion of great performances and amazing action. Director David Ayer did amazing job in both directing and script writing. Ayer is perhaps more known as the director to Training day. He is a proven writer, his previous movies.

Where once she was a female, now she is both girl and boy, though most often and most conspicuously girl” (Clover 135). The main analysis with the victim is that the victim is going to be killed whether it’s male or female, beautiful or not, and sexually active or not. Postcoital death is the most common of slasher films and is usually a pivotal point of the climax. According to Clover’s piece, “the death of a male is nearly always swift; even if the victim grasps what is happening to him, he has no time to react or register terror” (136). With that being said, I think it is worth noting that there’s a reason female deaths are filmed at closer range and in more detail. I feel that it’s easier for viewers to watch a female be stripped and abused and killed, because of what the audience is seeing; her naked body and her being taken advantage of. The director of the film highlights two important aspects of the situation: tits and the screams. If mostly males are watching these types of films, they aren’t going to want to see naked men and how they are getting groped or abused because that is not appealing to the male

A new and alarming trend that has been occurring in American society is the increase of violence committed by young women. The documentary Girlhood offers an insight on the emotional, psychological, and social reasoning behind the girl’s actions. Girlhood focuses on the life of two young juveniles, Shanae Owens and Megan Jensen both incarcerated for violent crimes. Shanae and Megan both experienced similar circumstances that yielded different outcomes. They were followed for a period of about three years which allowed viewers to really see what kind of role the justice system, family and peers have on the success of an at risk juvenile.

The movie I watched was 13th by Ava Duvernay produced by Kandoo Films and Forward Movement in 2016. Ava Duvernay is an American director, film maker and film distributor who has directed, co-directed and created since 2008. Some of her famous works are Selma, A Wrinkle in Time, and 13th (Wikipedia). Ava Duvernay says that some of her reasons for creating this film was because of her childhood and the image she had of what a police officer is. She also talks about her discovery of ALEC and the motivation it gave her to research more into that organization and also the topic. The main purpose of the movie was to raise awareness of the reality of slavery and massincarserations of the black population in the American society. There are any things we still don't know about slavery and massincarseration of blacks. This movie serves as a means of explaining the various things and truths we don't know about slavery and also the 13th amendment.

The Siskel and Ebert Halloween Review from 1978 shows how they like how the movie shows how the female character is seen as intelligent, brave and smart. The way the two men spoke about how they felt about the film gave a feminist critic. They were able to put them self in her shoes and think about how they might of felt in that scenario. They see the film as up and positive and see the movie for the film qualities other than the depressing killing. The film focused on film qualities, where the mood, lighting, music and camera angle all played roll in creating the feeling where one can feel that the female actor out smart the bad masked man.

It has been the age-old belief that it is a man’s job to protect women from all harm. The final girl defeats this standard by showing a smart, independent woman capable of fighting back the aggressor. I cannot dispute the sub-categories of horror movies that portray women in misogynistic manner such as borderline pornos like Zombie Strippers, but these movies rarely get any theatrical releases and almost no recognition, for a good

The movie, Girl, Interrupted, displays Susanna Kaysen’s eighteen-month stay at a mental institute in the 1960s. This film was an adaptation of a book based on a true story of the main character and author Susanna Kaysen. Susanna was checked into Claymore, a psychiatric hospital in Massachusetts, after chasing a bottle of aspirin with a bottle of vodka. At first, Susanna denies this blatant attempt at suicide and constantly struggles with uncertainty of her thoughts and emotions. Although Girl, Interrupted exhibits several mental disorders one of the most prevalent disorder of this film is Susanna’s Borderline Personality Disorder. This film depicts majority of the signs and symptoms of a person with Borderline Personality. As stated in the textbook, “the lives of persons with borderline personality are marked by instability. Their relationships are unstable, their behavior is unstable, their emotions are unstable, and even their images of themselves are unstable” (Larsen and Buss 593). Susanna’s romantic relationships are extremely unstable and she frequently engages in casual sex. She jumps from one guy to another in a matter of few weeks. One scene that establishes this the most is when her boyfriend at the time comes to visit her at Claymore and expresses his true feelings for her and she instantly withdraws. He asked her to go to Canada with him and she turns him down immediately. She also kisses Lisa who she befriends at the mental institute, displaying a switch of

She is our final girl and in a departure from the previous films, she has no help from Steve at the end of this film. He even tries to help her and Kristy literally pushes him away and saves the day herself. This movie has a deeper meaning when you consider the slang term for box is another way of describing female genitalia. In order to release the cenobites, one must play with this box, moving in until it clicks and upon opening it, you release “pleasure”. There are close ups on the box with characters slowly grazing their fingers along its edges, trying to find the button that will open it up. In the end you are left with the idea that it is your sexual desires that will consume you and that sexual women are bad. This message can come across as problematic given films ability to influence the masses. The target audience for slasher films ranges from pre-teen to young adults, all of whom are still discovering themselves and their own ways of thinking about sexuality and society. Slasher films tend to reinforce this idea that female sexuality can be problematic, that sexually promiscuous women are “whores” and men are

Alone in rooms they dwindled. They had met online. Skinny inclinations had drawn them together. Young girls, aching to be thin, they connected. Bony fingers clattered at keyboards as they converged in forums to discuss excess fat. They did not know each other’s names, were easily concealed behind avatars and handles. The forums they frequented did not bend exactly to their needs. They splintered. Together they set up an anonymous blog. This digital nook became their sanctuary. A five strong sorority thrived. Online, adolescent insecurities were magnified, exposed to global peer pressure. Fussing over physiques was a viral disease. Beneath the line, images were deconstructed, every inch sifted for flaws.

One of the very most uplifting stories of the time, the story that was, still is and will continue to be the utmost heartening and inspiring, the story of the ‘TRUE GOLDEN GIRL’, the story of ‘BETTY CUTHBERT’, a victim of multiple sclerosis in 1969. From an ordinary worker in her father’s plant nursery to someone who set nine world records, starting from an early age of 15 years, this is the life sketch of the renowned athlete- ‘Betty Cuthbert’.

In the movie Girl, Interrupted the plot surrounds a period in the life of Susanna Kaysen played by Winona Ryder who was institutionalized at the Claymore mental hospital in the 1960s. In the movie, the main character Susanna is diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder and undergoes treatment to which at the end of the movie she is released. It is at this hospital that Susanna encounters many other patients of which she shares many experiences with. One of these patients was the longtime resident and popular amongst all the other patients Lisa Rowe played by Angelina Jolie whom Susanna became close with and would mid-movie escape the hospital with to only return on her own and find that Lisa would be back a few days later. Lisa, while being the protagonist of the movie, was very charismatic in her own way and based on her behavior and revelation in the movie is diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder, particularly a sociopath in the movie.

"Cold, shiny, hard, PLASTIC," said by Janice referring to a group of girls in the movie Mean Girls. Mean Girls is about an innocent, home-schooled girl, Cady who moves from Africa to the United States. Cady thinks she knows all about survival of the fittest. But the law of the jungle takes on a whole new meaning when she enters public high school and encounters psychological warfare and unwritten social rules that teen girls deal with today. Cady goes from a great friend of two "outcasts", Janice and Damien to a superficial friend of the "plastics", a group of girls that talks about everyone behind their back and thinks everyone loves them. Adolescent egocentrism and relationships with peers are obviously present throughout the film. I

In majority of horror films, there always seems to be at least one reoccurring theme. The theme that seems to be a big one is females being seen as the target or victim. When it comes to the genre of horror, young girls, specifically high school or college girls, are used as the main character. Whether it’s a group of teenage girls or one singled out, they always tend to be the center of attention. Why is this specific gender and age chosen to take the main role in slasher films? Girls of the ages between sixteen and twenty-two featured in these types of films usually occur to fall under some of the same categories. They are all characterized as stereotypical teenage/young adult girls being viewed as clueless and weak. A major reason that tends to be argued for young girls being targeted in this genre is due to their sexual interaction or problems and issues they may have caused in the past. Whether the person attacking the female in the film is coming back for revenge or just out of personal hate, the attacker uses these reasons to “curse” the victim as a reason for the attack. The females are seen as symbolic in modern day slasher films; they are seen as the main trouble in this specific genre. In horror films, women being seen as problematic to society, sexually cursed, weak, and symbolic are all factors in the creation of making them the main target or victim in this specific genre.

In ‘Gone Girl’ and ‘Daddy’, both authors explore the idea that one can never truly be free, and that even once freedom is believed to be gained; one is still not completely free. Although the idea in Plath and Fincher’s texts are similar, there are some clear differences in their portrayal. While Fincher creates his film with a cyclic nature to illustrate how Nick is unable to be free from his relationship, Plath uses holocaust allusion to emphasise how the speaker of her poem ‘Daddy’ felt trapped by her father’s looming figure, just as the Jews were by Hitler. Fincher begins his film with Nick stroking his wife’s (Amy) hair, and questioning what she is thinking, and concludes the film in the same way, even after Nick’s constant struggle throughout the film to escape the “failing marriage”; alluding to Nick’s inability to escape. Plath’s reference to her father as a “panzer-man” with his “Aryan” looks and his “Luftwaffe” brutality forces the reader to understand the extent in which she is trapped by her father, consequently minimising the shock when the speaker of Plath’s poem uses mythical imagery to refer to the “model of [her father]” that she married in an attempt to be from the restraints of her father. Plath’s use of mythical imagery to illustrate her partner is used in a similar way to how Fincher used [metatext/intertextuality/text within a text??] to portray Nick’s inability to escape from his marriage to Amy. After the speaker in Plath’s poem ‘Daddy’ escapes her father, she is still unable to be free from him, as she ends up creating a substitute for him by marrying a man who “drank [her] blood for a year”, the vampire allusion a metaphor for him draining her life and her freedom, in the way a vampire would literally drain the blood of their victim. This inability to escape due to marriage is also strongly reflected in Fincher’s ‘Gone Girl’. Unlike Plath, Fincher employs the use of a [text within a text?] to portray how the protagonist, Nick, is unable to be free from his relationship with Amy. ‘Amazing Amy Gets Married’ is a children’s book that is written by Amy’s parents, which results in pressure being placed on Nick to quickly marry her, so that Amazing Amy is no longer one step ahead from the

Nina Freeman is an indie developer that has been making these short little autobiographical vignettes or how she refers to them based on a true story game. Some are pretty silly and other are serious but most meet in the middle of those two but they are all honest about the topics that they are covering without sugar coating it. One of her most notable game that just went absolutely went viral last year is a game called How Do You Do It. Where you play as a young version of Nina and are mashing these dolls together to trying to figure out how sex works.