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In the movie cusps has a lot of different perspectives on gender. In the movie there were really no characters that seemed to be good, and in discussion one student mentions that they are all flawed in some sense and I strongly believe this is true. Alice was the main character and it seemed like evrything was happening to her but in reality she had some on the same mind sets as the other people in the movie, like where her and her friend chanted "beautys not inside beautys in my tits" or something in that nature. All the men in the movie are portayed as bad in some sense. The neighbors husband left her and that is automatically bad, and then when she seen him with another woman she didnt say anything to them, she just acted as if everything was okay when it really wasnt. She got dressed up very nice after he broke up with her and i think that is a part of gender because when a male breaks up with a female the female may try get all dolled up so she seems more desirable, so the male will believe he needs her back or something in that nature.
The fact that all the kids made it a big deal that Alice didnt have a sleeping bag is ridiclous to me. The other kids wanted to exclude someone and they didnt want to be the one who was excluded so they chose her. She failed to realize there was a genuine person in the class when she complimented her project because her mind was so far in the clouds about the comments the other children were making. The teacher was also out of pocket for not putting the children in their place while one of their classmates was trying to present their work.
Cusps was a good movie to watch because it shows what happens in everyday life and how people react to certain situations.