positive feminist view
The term feminism is one of which much controversy has risen in the recent decades. Since the 1920's, women have been trying to gain equality in living with that of men. To me it's the idea of everyone sharing a common belief of "laissez faire"; the freedom of being able to do what one choses, the opportunity. I believe that feminism is about empowerment and equality. Anyone can be a feminist and I also think that it can relate to people other than women.
In the film "Thelma and Louise", both women were in situations that were a bit stifling and once they got on the road and were able to leave their hum-dum lives behind, their feminist sides were revealed. After the women discovered that they were wanted for murder, the film really took a feminist turn. It started with the incident of blowing up the truck driver's 18-wheeler, then overtaking the police officer and locking him in his own trunk then finally escalating to the car chase that led to climax of the film. That last car chase scene is, for me, the culminating point of feminism in the film because Thelma and Louise refuse to be taken in by the man and they make the decision of what's best for them rather than let the man. They refuse to go back to their suffocating lives and instead are able to just breathe in their last minutes of life, knowing that together, they took charge of their lives. Thelma and Louise were finally liberated by finding the opportunities in life and letting them experience the excitement of their idea of equality with the men they encountered on their adventure.