By ladyaryastark on Skatehive
The film serves as an excuse to reflect on the role of women, and how culture — through cinema, music and literature — creates stereotypes and, perhaps through sheer repetition, models of life. In the film, the secondary female lead, wife of the protagonist in one of the stories, is an example of everything feminists fought against. She doesn't work, she has no life outside her husband's orbit — who initially doesn't work either, since he aspires to be a writer — so both of them live parasitically off the writer's father. She is the perfect example of a woman whose contribution to the relationship is to provide sex and keep the house clean and tidy for her husband, even though in this case he isn't even the breadwinner. This portrayal of the character is not far removed from the reality of less than a century ago, though even today I still see many cases like this. Given that women have fought hard to obtain rights as basic as voting or working, I find it disrespectful that a story or