![]() ![]() The acclaimed French film-maker Céline Sciamma, who made the genuinely erotic drama Portrait of a Lady on Fire, once told me about the battle for female actors, writers and directors to be treated with respect by European cinema’s enduringly sexist male establishment. I know this scene was shortened, thanks to the BBFC’s suggestion that it contravened the 1978 Protection of Children Act, but lord, it still seems to go on for ever. She is bound and gagged in a scene played for laughs.Ī man forces his young sons to watch him have sex with Bella. Men – always much older and sometimes with visual deformities (raising questions about the degrading treatment of people with disabilities) – use Bella’s body without any attempt at foreplay. Prostitution has always been romanticised by men in fiction, but it remains overwhelmingly the male exploitation of poor female bodies. ![]() Feminists challenge the patriarchal system in which women’s choices exist. Just because a woman chooses to do something, does not make the act feminist. In the 1970s, pornographers jumped on the women’s liberation movement, claiming sexual liberation was essentially never saying no.Īs a work of fiction, Poor Things can explore anything it likes, but it is not feminist. She embarks on a “voyage of self-discovery” which leads, quickly, to an insatiable desire for sex with as many men as possible, one of the oldest abuser myths. Hilarious! But Bella, Stone’s character, has an infant’s brain – and the consent issue for a woman with learning difficulties is a blazing red flag. ![]() Emma Stone is a terrific actor, Mark Ruffalo a genuine good guy activist playing a cad. ![]()
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