When producing our promotional package, we didn't think about any theorys or how our film applied to them, but in post-production, we realised that our film does indeed agree with several theorys.
"A theory that our film agrees with strongly is the Male Gaze theory by Laura Mulvey, a feminist theorist who describes how films are often through a male's perspective, often showing the woman as inferior or an object. Our film definatly agrees with this as the main character is abused by her husband and is clearly inferior to him.
"Mulvey identifies three "looks" or perspectives that occur in film which serve to sexually objectify women. The first is the perspective of the male character on screen and how he perceives the female character. The second is the perspective of the spectator as they see the female character on screen. The third "look" joins the first two looks together: it is the male audience member's perspective of the male character in the film. This third perspective allows the male audience to take the female character as his own personal sex object because he can relate himself, through looking, to the male character in the film."(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminist_film_theory#The_gaze_and_the_female_spectator)
This quote from Wikipedia explains Mulvey's theorey and how males often seem superior in films.
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