A Feminist Analysis of The Movie “Thelma & Louise”
“Thelma and Louise” directed by Ridley Scott is a feminist road movie discussing women place in Hollywood action drama. Thelma (Geena Davis), a housewife, and Louise (Susan Sarandon), a waitress are two different characterised women in the movie. It is a rebel history from a feminine perspective and it shows the incidents they face as a results of their rebel in many ways on the road they rised and an effort to overcome their status within the community, and to make a better alternative for their present position and also to escape from where they stand. They have a plan to go to mountains without informing their husband and boyfriend beforehand. They want also surprise or maybe screw up their …show more content…
With his words or physical harrasment, Thelma is exposed to a poorly life. It is impossible to take a step for Thelma without informing her husband but of course as he lets her does nothing, how could she explain to him for a weekend trip. A trip which indeed shows the changes happen to them. At the beginning of the trip they went on, Thelma says she has never been out of town without Darryl, her husband. Their relationship is as Kate Millet mentions in her work Sexual Politics, “the process whereby the ruling sex seeks to maintain and extend its power over the subordinate sex” that is what Darryl is trying to do over Thelma. He only screams at her and tries to make her do things with his insulting words. There is a scene, at the beginning of their trip, where cows are freed to wilderness which we may suppose that they freed themselves to outside world. Thelma indeed does not hold an identity in society yet maybe. Thelma was pushed by her husband in search of an identity. His ignorance and behaviours to her made her seem she has no importance at home. At the very beginning of the movie when Thelma tries to prepare coffee for Darryl, he does not even thanks her politely although she is trying to make him not to be late to work and have something in breakfast which reflects Simone de Beauvoir who believed that “existence precedes essence; hence one is not born a woman, but becomes …show more content…
Women are looked down upon society when they do not follow the domestic norms. Beauvoir explains that woman referred as “the other”, what is a woman? The question is significant actually. A man would never define himself as he is a man and does not start to present himself as an individual of a specific sex. Being a man is not strange because for man there is no need to define what is to be a man. There is no reason, because men identified themselves as the superior part. De Beauvoir defines women as the “Second sex” because women are defined in relation to men. It is a kind of symmetrical comparison, but masculine and feminine aren’t asymmetrical. Althought Beauvoir contributed to the feminist movement especially the French Women’s Liberation Movement and her beliefs in women's economic independence and equal education, de Beauvoir was reluctant to call herself a
“Thelma and Louise” directed by Ridley Scott is a feminist road movie discussing women place in Hollywood action drama. Thelma (Geena Davis), a housewife, and Louise (Susan Sarandon), a waitress are two different characterised women in the movie. It is a rebel history from a feminine perspective and it shows the incidents they face as a results of their rebel in many ways on the road they rised and an effort to overcome their status within the community, and to make a better alternative for their present position and also to escape from where they stand. They have a plan to go to mountains without informing their husband and boyfriend beforehand. They want also surprise or maybe screw up their …show more content…
With his words or physical harrasment, Thelma is exposed to a poorly life. It is impossible to take a step for Thelma without informing her husband but of course as he lets her does nothing, how could she explain to him for a weekend trip. A trip which indeed shows the changes happen to them. At the beginning of the trip they went on, Thelma says she has never been out of town without Darryl, her husband. Their relationship is as Kate Millet mentions in her work Sexual Politics, “the process whereby the ruling sex seeks to maintain and extend its power over the subordinate sex” that is what Darryl is trying to do over Thelma. He only screams at her and tries to make her do things with his insulting words. There is a scene, at the beginning of their trip, where cows are freed to wilderness which we may suppose that they freed themselves to outside world. Thelma indeed does not hold an identity in society yet maybe. Thelma was pushed by her husband in search of an identity. His ignorance and behaviours to her made her seem she has no importance at home. At the very beginning of the movie when Thelma tries to prepare coffee for Darryl, he does not even thanks her politely although she is trying to make him not to be late to work and have something in breakfast which reflects Simone de Beauvoir who believed that “existence precedes essence; hence one is not born a woman, but becomes …show more content…
Women are looked down upon society when they do not follow the domestic norms. Beauvoir explains that woman referred as “the other”, what is a woman? The question is significant actually. A man would never define himself as he is a man and does not start to present himself as an individual of a specific sex. Being a man is not strange because for man there is no need to define what is to be a man. There is no reason, because men identified themselves as the superior part. De Beauvoir defines women as the “Second sex” because women are defined in relation to men. It is a kind of symmetrical comparison, but masculine and feminine aren’t asymmetrical. Althought Beauvoir contributed to the feminist movement especially the French Women’s Liberation Movement and her beliefs in women's economic independence and equal education, de Beauvoir was reluctant to call herself a