Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Feminist futures

I love futuristic / sci-fi movies but I am getting rather tired of the same scenarios. Dystopian futures tend towards violent settings, dominated by men, where women's roles are either possessions or whores, and usually both. There is an occasional toughie woman but she still needs to be saved by the hard guy in the end. I wonder if this is some sort of fantasy scenario for male writers/actors/directors.

It's time for some feminist future films, which imagine alternative scenarios. They can still be dystopian, but let's liberate women to have more autonomy. To be sharp and resourceful, tough and resilient, to get themselves out of predicaments, not necessarily with strength but with canniness. But not using their bodies as tools, using their minds.