Thursday, November 5, 2015

What I thought of UN Jour

Yes I am a guy...

Yes I believe that women deserve equal rights...


The other day in class Professor Leeper asked the guys what they thought about the film UN Jour, a friend asked me the same question just after class when it was showed, she wanted to hear what a guy thought of it. 
When I was watching the film I could not help but think the artist was giving more power to the woman than even guys deserve, the way I saw it was the woman had more power over the man and what he did, than the man did. This film was masterfully done especially if you only give the man the role of emotional or spiritual representation, but there are too many physical traits for me to think that was the case, it may have been. During the film there were two main scenes that stood out to me making the man seem more physical than anything else the first was when they were eating, an emotional or spiritual representation would have no need for food or drink, the second was the bathtub scene where even my friend said that that did make the man seem more physical when he still needed air. I could accept that the scene of her setting the bags down and him picking them up was more like moral support than him actually physically helping her, but my point still remains that he seems pretty physical.
The ending was powerful for me, seeing the kind of damage that men can cause to women when they leave, but remember ladies, the same happens to men as well. I understand that when someone leaves there is a hole left that cannot be filled by another person, and the pain of them leaving. 
Over all the film was very powerful for almost every person in that room as far as I can tell. 
I know most will disagree with what I said but I am just giving you my opinion. I am hesitant to post this because I know most of you feel very strongly about this.
 

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