NOT liberating for women.
Phallocentrism & the male gaze are maintained through the discourses of our ideas of women as the erotic/exotic, and by reinforcing these ideas through presenting women in these films as objects to look at. I do not feel this movie was liberating to women at all actually. I found it insulting. She plays off of her sexuality the entire time. I understand that she isn't happy in her marriage, but I feel her way of dealing with it is insulting to not only women but people in general- in the sense that she could've handled the situation a lot better. She wants Daniel to control her, and she feels that she needs a man who will boss her around, yell at her, and treat her with complete disrespect- only seeing her as a sex object, not a human being. The fact that she reinforces this frustrates me because she is allowing people to view her not as a human being, but as an object for the male gaze.