Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Overall Themes: generational trauma, femininity and restrictions on its various forms, intellectual disability, male responses to female liberation.
The theme I want to focus on here is the last one, the male responses to female liberation. There are five main male characters in this movie: Dr. Godwin Baxter (parental figure), Max McCandles (romantic interest), Duncan Wedderburn (romantic interest), Harry Astley (erudite friend), and Alfie Blessington (romantic interest). Each one of these men have different but very familiar responses to Bella's…