Villeneuve needles at the idea that the corporate plasmas and hollow sexuality of Los Angeles 2049 feels a lot less than 32 years away from his audience's current reality.
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Restraint is not director Nicolas Winding Refn’s strong suit. With a body of work that includes the explosive excesses of Bronson, the ultra-stylized fluorescent gore of The Neon Demon and the all-out savagery of Only God Forgives. He seems a director who, for better and worse, can't control himself.
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“The alien's own journey of realising what it means to be a human woman, physically, psychologically and sociologically is one of the most fascinating and moving commentaries on gender that I’ve ever seen.”
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“Eyes Wide Shut in its bare bones is most reminiscent of a Woody Allen drama: a wealthy New York couple explore their marriage and how it relates to their individual understandings of trust and sexuality.”
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“Cuaron unfolds the narrative in a relaxed way and with quite a lot of distance between himself and the material which nicely balances out with how deep-rooted his emotional connection to the story, the era and setting as a whole, really is.”
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I am, however, frustrated by modern audiences seeming reliance on it. At the end of the day, The Bechdel Test is a thirty-year-old joke in a comic strip, not some deep analysis of where we’re going wrong in female characterisation.
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If you want to ensure people will invest in your female character’s journey, you can’t expect ‘just add women’ to cut it. But what could you do?
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“Writers often have a social conscience, but good female characterisation should never about ticking boxes, or educating anyone. Regardless of gender politics or general philanthropy, ignoring the women in your audience is quite simply bad business sense. Ignoring your female characters is literally leaving money on the table.”
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