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This Movie is a Feminist Masterpiece

posted a year ago by Zinger (2440)
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It's actually about Lorraine being eternally trapped in a life that is dependent upon her limitations as a woman. In the original timeline she falls in love with George after he has an accident (having never really noticed him before). Then, in the new timeline, she is manipulated by her son into ensuring his own existence by falling in love with George because he fights for her honour.

At no point does she actually get to have her own life.

And in the end, she is left to live a banal life with a banal man and three banal children.

[–] RoboReCop (3379) a year ago

"… her own life";

In the original timeline, she falls in love, gets married, and has kids; In the 'new' timeline, she falls in love, gets married, has kids; in alt-1985, she had fallen in love, got married, had kids...

Though these things happened three different times, shouldn't be the matter. What should be the matter is that if Lorraine never had kids, gotten married, or fallen in love, she would have lived her own life.

You really hit the nail on the head.

[–] SolarisPatchwork (298) a year ago

What do you have against falling in love, getting married, and having kids? That IS living your own life.

[–] RoboReCop (3379) a year ago

I was being sardonic.

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