Hi all,
I consider myself a feminist and yet I know many people who would consider this a strongly anti-feminist film. I honestly don't care if it is or not because I think it's a great film either way, but I think it's just men talking the way men have always talked to one another at any point in time. So I'm curious, are there any other feminists out there who see the brilliance in this movie?
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Why would you even have to consider a film about a MEN'S mental hospital being anti-feminist? Men will talk the way they do, just as women will talk the way they do. If the film was set in a WOMEN'S mental hospital, would that make it anti-MRA? Or are only women allowed to complain about how men discuss them? Perhaps you don't you like it that the villain and main antagonist was a mean, cold, controlling, manipulating, narcissistic female sow. She is one of the most despised movie villains in history.
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Just because Ratchet is painted as super evil while having power over men does not mean the film is an attack on women on a whole. This sounds like more twisted feminist delusion.
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Another American feminist here. I think this is a terrific, impactful story and has little, if anything, to do with feminism. Nurse Ratched doesn't represent women, she represents a broken system that 'treats' the mentally ill. She's an out and out villain, but her sex has nothing to do with it.
I love 'the Chief' and fully feel the joy of his escape at the end (and McMurphy's, in a different way).
Amen! It's a great book and movie, and Ken Kesey was definitely not making any anti feminist statement with this book that was based mostly on his experiences and observations while working at mental institution in younger years. And while I would agree that women have been overlooked and under represented in the art world, this book and film isn't meant to bash women, and Nurse Ratchet isn't meant to represent a gender.
There are so many great films and stories being created today that have great female heros in leading roles. The new star wars films, Girl w/Dragon Tattoo, Lucy, Her, Joy, Paper Towns just to name a few, and that trend isn't slowing. So there's plenty out there that better represent and celebrate the female gender, and I'd suggest that feminists may be better served looking to the positive changes and supporting/promoting them rather than going back to hunt for negatives in pieces that weren't created as such.
Of course I love this movie and I am a feminist of course.
There is nothing anti-feminist in this movie.