Blog Four
I didn't see the movie as being as much about gender disparity as it may have been portrayed. Instead, I saw it as a comment on power and class disparity. The movie also seems to be another generic coming-of-age story that have been spewed out of Hollywood pretty often. This one has the added sentimental bonus of a daughter being raised by a single mother. Clichéd.
Nevertheless, the main area that I found that Alice struggled with was related moreso to her age and class rather than her gender. The film did realistically portray how children and teens want be treated as adults, up until they have to burden some responsibility for being an “adult.� This is evident for Alice when she refuses to do the dishes when her mother asks, stating that she has to go to school (as if elementary/middle school is the hard) while her mother works a full time job doing God knows what. It casts the main character as naive child, unprepared to actually be an adult and more importantly, unworthy of my sympathy.
She battles with being lower class, as she is unable to attend the slumber party of some other bratty child because she's poor and no one seems to like that. So better have a sleeping bag or no one will like you.
Lila cries because that guy left her, but it seemed to be not because she was a woman, but because he was a scumbag anyways. And Alice is sad because the teacher didn't pick on her, but I find it hard to believe that it would be sexist if a female teacher didn't call on girl.