Objectification
Sucker Punch
Young girls kept as prostitutes try to escape their fate. Despite their physical weakness they attempt and succeed to fight men.
--> Sexist view combined with a slight element of feminism: most female characters have very strong personalities. They use men just as much as they are being used by men. It is also a genre convention of action films to employ attracting women. In this movie all spectacular battles are fought by these female warriors instead of a stereotypical male hero.
Black Swan
The tough life of a ballet dancer: the road to perfection involves hard training, anorexia and conflicts with both the inner self and the outside world.
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- Marxist-Freudian liberation model of sexuality as a natural instinct repressed by authoritarian familial and social institutions.
- Foucault: 'Power would be a fragile thing if its only function were to repress.'
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