"Thelma and Louise" dramatises the ongoing battle of the sexes, or rather, women's struggle against men in a patriarchal society. This was the only reason for its success. Write a review of the film in which you comment on this statement.

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“Thelma and Louise” dramatises the ongoing battle of the sexes, or rather, women’s struggle against men in a patriarchal society. This was the only reason for its success.  Write a review of the film in which you comment on this statement.

The feminist film “Thelma and Louise” was produced in 1991. This production was directed by Ridley Scott and the screenplay was written by Callie Khouri. It starred various actresses and actors. In the main roles were Geena Davis (Thelma) and Susan Sarandon (Louise). Other roles were played by Brad Pitt (JD), Harvey Keitel (Hal), Michael Madsen (Jimmy) and lastly Christopher McDonald (Darryl).

The film portrays the life of two young best friends who set off on a secret vacation away from their tiresome daily lives i.e. partners, work and stress. On their spontaneous journey they get themselves into trouble. Louise shoots a man who had just tried to rape Thelma. Due to the incriminating circumstances, they try to escape by making a run for it but are soon followed closely by the authorities including a local policeman who is sympathetic to their plight. The authorities however have less compassion and so a cross country chase is set out for the two fugitives. Along the way, both women rediscover the strength of their friendship and surprising aspects of their personalities in the trying times.

The film gained mixed reviews from the critics as people had very different opinions on the storyline. One critic said that “Thelma and Louise” was a female version to the film “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.” The critic believed that the only differentiation between the two films was that the main characters were played by the opposite sex. Others thought that the film was only successful because Thelma and Louise were acting like men and were doing things that mostly men would do, i.e. drinking so much that they were seriously drunk, shooting people, committing crimes such as robbery and theft and also carrying guns. On the other hand other critics believed that the film showed the powerful and strong world of women and it was nice to see two women fighting and refusing to give into the likes of the male dominated world and to the unjust society.

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Inequality in society has a very powerful effect on the media as there are a number of different TV programmes that relate to the life of women only. Take, for example, “Sex and the City.”  This programme is based around four successful young women, all of whom are having wonderful independent lives with a great careers and fantastic lives, showing women that they can do the same. Another example of a TV Programme is “Murder, she wrote.” This programme is based around a woman detective. It is unique as the detective is a woman and she is successful in ...

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