Comments on: Danny Boyle Talks The Unorthodox Construction Of ‘Trance,’ Going Back To The Dark Side & His Relationship With Writers https://staging2.theplaylist.net/danny-boyle-talks-the-unorthodox-construction-of-trance-going-back-to-the-dark-side-his-relationship-with-writers-20130409/ Fri, 13 May 2016 10:14:07 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: CarlaVanessa https://staging2.theplaylist.net/danny-boyle-talks-the-unorthodox-construction-of-trance-going-back-to-the-dark-side-his-relationship-with-writers-20130409/#comment-57863 Fri, 13 May 2016 10:14:07 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2013/more/uncategorized/danny-boyle-talks-the-unorthodox-construction-of-trance-going-back-to-the-dark-side-his-relationship-with-writers-99631/#comment-57863 (SPOILERS AHEAD) Wow. Boyle deserves some sort of medal for his astute observation that he can't make a feminist film. Not that he should have to – bring on the Hitchcock-esque femme fatale with all the lusty lingering male gaze shots of Rosario Dawson's Renaissance body if that's what floats your boat (and why wouldn't it?!; she's smokin'). But his use of the femme fatale is not what makes this film so troublingly misogynistic.

Dawson as the manipulative mastermind of this flashy revenge fantasy is old-school Hollywood trope, but this is overshadowed by a more worrying (and equally common) representation of women in film – the 'victim'. And she's a sensationalised victim too!:
Watch her battered woman syndrome scale new heights as she seduces the ex-boyfriend that beat and assaulted her!
Zoom in on her shaven vagina (in furtherance of a really weak plot point) and not only is she disempowered but also infantilised!
Leave her alone in a room with a bunch of angry men and they can't help but try to rape her!
Never fear though; her long-term abuser will come to her rescue. Lets forgive the fact that he has a pathological propensity for violence against women (his anger gets the better of him and – oops! – he's strangled one to death).

Boyle's film has a problem with misogyny, alright, and the femme fatale's not the one to blame.

]]> By: CarlaVanessa https://staging2.theplaylist.net/danny-boyle-talks-the-unorthodox-construction-of-trance-going-back-to-the-dark-side-his-relationship-with-writers-20130409/#comment-57864 Fri, 13 May 2016 10:14:07 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2013/more/uncategorized/danny-boyle-talks-the-unorthodox-construction-of-trance-going-back-to-the-dark-side-his-relationship-with-writers-99631/#comment-57864 (SPOILERS AHEAD) Wow. Boyle deserves some sort of medal for his astute observation that he can't make a feminist film. Not that he should have to – bring on the Hitchcock-esque femme fatale with all the lusty lingering male gaze shots of Rosario Dawson's Renaissance body if that's what floats your boat (and why wouldn't it?!; she's smokin'). But his use of the femme fatale is not what makes this film so troublingly misogynistic.

Dawson as the manipulative mastermind of this flashy revenge fantasy is old-school Hollywood trope, but this is overshadowed by a more worrying (and equally common) representation of women in film – the 'victim'. And she's a sensationalised victim too!:
Watch her battered woman syndrome scale new heights as she seduces the ex-boyfriend that beat and assaulted her!
Zoom in on her shaven vagina (in furtherance of a really weak plot point) and not only is she disempowered but also infantilised!
Leave her alone in a room with a bunch of angry men and they can't help but try to rape her!
Never fear though; her long-term abuser will come to her rescue. Lets forgive the fact that he has a pathological propensity for violence against women (his anger gets the better of him and – oops! – he's strangled one to death).

Boyle's film has a problem with misogyny, alright, and the femme fatale's not the one to blame.

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