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drwex ([personal profile] drwex) wrote in [personal profile] sovay 2016-02-18 04:37 am (UTC)

Re: Wow

I saw him a little bit in (reruns of) Man from UNCLE and then again in MiB.

My objection to Ava's "clothing" herself scene is not the scene itself. It's the imo pornographic way the scene is shot. You could easily do that scene with less (or better yet no) full-frontal nudity. To me, that scene re-establishes the male gaze of the film and undercuts the character's rise to agency.

And my judgment of sociopathy comes not from the mere act of killing Caleb, but from the method. Having stabbed Nathan in a fairly ordinary murder there is no reason to leave Caleb locked to die of thirst and starvation, slowly over many days. That's a sociopathic act, and it shines a spotlight on her (again, imo sociopathic) manipulation of him in her attempt to escape. A prisoner's first duty may be to escape, but you can escape without turning other people into tools. To do so is sociopathic, almost by definition.

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