‘We Need to Talk about Kevin’s Abject Mother
The film relocates the fears surrounding motherhood away from the patriarchal fears of abjection to the female and feminist fears of fulfillment.
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‘Life After Beth’ and the Trouble With Absent Presence
Though Plaza gives a committed physical performance, clearly having a ball in monster make-up, it’s really all she’s given to do. She isn’t even given much room to be funny in the supposed comedy. It’s as if Plaza has been cast in a feature length sketch-show, playing all manner of stereotypical “girlfriends from hell.” I imagine it on ‘Saturday Night Live’: first a short musical theme, “The Girlfriend from Hell,” then Plaza making a snarky comment to her boyfriend and vomiting pea soup all over him.
Classic Literature Film Adaptations Week: ‘We Need to Talk About Kevin’
Official movie poster for We Need to Talk About Kevin This is a guest post by Amanda Lyons and is cross-posted with permission from her blog Mrs Meow Says. You know how I said in my review of Into the Wild that it was one of the most recent books I’ve read that disturbed me? … Continue reading “Classic Literature Film Adaptations Week: ‘We Need to Talk About Kevin’”
Sherlock Holmes and the Case of Forced Heteronormativity
Irene Adler never needed Sherlock Holmes or any man (including the Czech King who hired Sherlock to face her in the first place), and when she finds love (with a man who is neither the king nor Holmes), it’s on her terms. Irene Adler only appears in one of Conan Doyle’s stories because she has her own life, and it does not rotate around nor even involve Sherlock Holmes. She is a clever, intelligent, resourceful, sex-positive woman in control of her own life, her own body, and her own destiny, and deserves not only a writer to do her justice, but a series to completely center her and all her fantastic escapades.