GOM, still for male gaze
As most of the class has agreed, Girl on a Motorcycle is not a liberating film for women and could be dubbed girl orgasming on a motorcycle. I is phalliocentric by centering the main character, Rebecca around a sexual meeting and concentrating many shots in the film around her body, sexual actions, and sexual innuendos (i.e no clothes under jumpsuit) she's a pretty girl in a tight fitting get- up and believes she is "free" and independant when she is actually riding her motorcycle as a substitute for her abusive lover. This movie used various types of voyerism to display the male gaze including the camera filming sex scenes between the cheating lovers and the look between Rebecca and Daniel.
Although Rebecca seems as though she is an active character by going on a trip to see her lover she is overpowered by him during their "love making" he also says that he will lover her and never love anyone...making the decisions in the relationship.
This film is a poor example for womens liberation and only reminds of how many men like to have power and be in control of situations and sex.