![]() LOL: ThinkGeek Served Cease and Desist for Fake Pr.I also realize that it can be interpreted different ways and how one could argue that it is simply portraying transitioning as something violent and evil which is obviously a problem. I still don't see it as meaning transitioning (genders) as something horrible on its own.it's more just something that happens to occur in this film during horrible moments/timing. It is unfortunate how the film portrayed transitioning genders but I also feel the entire context needs to be taken into consideration. If Dren had survived as a female a similar revenge scene could have still occured. I don't mean to say it's justified or anything like that - it was still brutal to watch - and this is the part that I came closest to being angry about gender portrayals, but it still didn't hit me as male=violent. I'm not entirely sure what to say about the rape scene but it was a horrible revenge scene in which Polley had removed it's phallus/tail (not necessarily a penis, but symbolic of one) and then he returns to attack Polley with it. I didn't see it as he is violent because he is male. After that when she comes back as male Dren, he wakes up angry and wanting revenge. ![]() I'd be a little pissed too - male or female. On top of that she is in some ways buried alive. After that Dren realizes that the two pose a threat to her life and it happens to coincide around the time she dies/transforms. When Polley catches Dren with Brody she ties her down, strips her, and then essentially mutilates Dren's body. As a girl she was raised as Sarah Polley's daughter and felt loved by both so there was no threat and no need to be violent. With Dren I also had a little bit of a problem about how they treated gender but I also feel it can be explained. I didn't see it as men=violent and women=seductresses (although I can also understand why people would argue it that way). ![]() The blobs were from animal (or something) DNA and most animals are territorial and attack the same gender, so it makes sense that two male blobby things in an enclosed space would attack each other (amount of gore was ridiculous and kind of hilarious/disturbing at the same time). At first I felt like I really should have been annoyed at the fact that the males were violent (both the blobby things and Dren) and at how motherhood is betrayed. At the point she seemed more like a daughter to him so that's why I was creeped out and then all of a sudden her wings sprouted out and I remembered there was more than one reason to be disturbed by that scene.Ī lot of what you've said about the movie makes sense and I agree, I just am not sure I agree with your critique of the representation of gender. Especially the part when Adrien Brody has sex with Dren. but the movie definitely made me feel uncomfortable. ![]()
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