Comments | sihaya09: Playing catch-up.

sihaya09

Playing catch-up.

Dec 20, 2010 11:47

BUSY weekend. Any online energies were spent answering customer emails or following #mooreandme. Therefore... catch-up.

Day One: Ten things you want to say to ten different people right now ( Read more... )

movies, memes, sexuality

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Re: Can I get your opinion on something? sihaya09 December 21 2010, 03:04:15 UTC

This is weird, I TOTALLY replied to you from my phone. But it is not here.

Yes, of course.

aethyrkitten December 21 2010, 15:11:54 UTC

I love Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. I've heard a lot of fallout about it claiming that it's incredibly misogynistic, but I thought that - ESPECIALLY for a movie that focuses on the male character and his POV, where some underdeveloped female characters would make some sense because we're seeing them through his initially immature gaze - Knives and Ramona were some of the most feminist-friendly characters I've seen in a long time. Knives especially, who starts out so pitiful and sheltered and co-dependent and matures into this amazing woman who has no desire to cling to a guy who doesn't want her and the presence of mind to realize that she doesn't need him. She rocks.

sihaya09 December 21 2010, 15:15:53 UTC

It didn't ping me as misogynist, even though Ramona is very Manic Pixie Dream Girl who never gets anything to do other than be the Manic Pixie Dream Girl. I loooooooved Knives by the end of the movie, for just the reason you mentioned. When she stands on her own two feet at the end, I was like YESSSS. Knives >>>>>> Ramona.

aethyrkitten December 21 2010, 16:47:44 UTC

I even thought Ramona wasn't too bad. I hate Manic Pixie Dream Girls - I knew one in HS and she was a massively self-centered manipulative bitch - so I thought it was cool that Ramona wasn't just on a pedestal, that Scott quickly realizes that she's kind of a fickle and selfish bitchy mcbitcherson and that she hasn't given much of a shit up 'til now who she hurt or what she's done. Ramona goes through some character development too, since she goes from blanket-dismissing her past and being kind of "Yeah I dated him for two weeks and then dumped him, whatever" about it to taking her behavior more seriously and admitting that she was a bitch. And at the end, both of them make a decision to be together, it's not Ramona being all "come with meeee omggggg." She realizes that she's not a great catch either, so for once she gives up her own selfish needs and thinks about what might be best for Scott, instead ( ... )