Does Thelma and Louise Describe Feminism?
"It would be easy to dismiss much of the debate about feminism and Thelma and Louise as a kind of anit-feminist backlash. But it was clearly more complex, in particular because many feminists were opposed to the film. The debate was rather over whose feminism the film represented, and the relationship of women to both anger and violence," (Sturken 11). I would describe feminism as the basic fight for equal rights. Feminists believe in the equality of the sexes. One sex should not be above another. There should be no supieriority or inferiority between the sexes. Feminists believe in a basic egalitarian society. I think that there are parts of Thelma and Louise that betray feminism and there are parts that don't. One point of the movie that proves feminism was a part of the movie was when Louise tells Harlen that when someone says no, they mean no. Just because someone is a woman doesn't mean that she shouldn't be heard. A point in the movie that betrays feminism is when there is the body shot of Thelma in her bikini. She is portrayed as a sexual object. We look at her as an object and nothing else, which is a step back from the feminist perspective. I think that this movie goes back and forth with what it was trying to portray but for its time, it was extremely influential.