Just saw Greta Gerwig’s Little Women. I loved it!
Even more, I realized I was watching what might be the most radically feminist film I have ever seen coming out of mainstream Hollywood. I’ll explain.
The cast consisted mostly of beautiful actresses. Yet unlike just about any Hollywood film you have ever seen, there was not a single shot that objectified or sexualized any of those actresses. The traditional “male gaze” was simply absent.
But Gerwig’s film goes even further than that. Within this story that is being told from a female perspective, the camera makes a point, at every possible moment, of gleefully objectifying the attractive leading men in the cast.
That, my friends, is a brilliant act of subversively radical feminism. And to their credit, Gerwig and her producers managed to drop it down right smack in the middle of our obliviously patriarchal culture.