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Kusama Jennifer's Body (2009) (If it's empowerment, how does it…
Kusama
Jennifer's Body
(2009)
a time capsule for early 2000s: costume, lip gloss
Diablo Cody screenwriting and language:
"salty" to talk about attractive men--also ironic cause Jennifer then eats them
The opening scene: close ups of bodies, gives us POV which plays with tradition (female gaze and a diff POV than Michael meyer)
use of ending of film as beginning serves to make the narrative drive into uncovering a "motive" for female violence
First line: "Hell is a teenage girl" maybe a reference to Sartre No Exit (Hell is other people); calls attention to gender. Calls attention to women as vulnerable? Women in a power struggle? Being a teen girl is hell--growing pains
If it's empowerment, how does it work?
seeing Jennifer flip the script, seduce dudes, and then murder em
"They're just boys, morsels. We have all the body"--seems empowering, but uses breasts/female body. References if men are nothing but sex drive, if you control that, it's power?
"Feel my heart, Jonas. I think it's broken"--this scene uses objectification in order to rethink strategies for representing women; asks us to think if sex is power
"my tit. No your heart"
shows the switchpoint for sex and murder; calling attention to trauma
film about trauma:
Jennifer Check as "survivor" and PTSD; questions of fighting back? But over generalized
Love traingles/structures of desire: lesbian? Bi? Hetero?
dorky guy and popular girl; "you're totally lesbi-gay"--homosocial v homosexual, but now with women.
Needy and Chip/jennifer and Collin: questions of virginity and purity. "Hopeless"
gets off on the suffering of her "best friend"
metaphor for the ways girls are backstabby and cliquey; women as emotionaly combative
the use of demonic transference to talk about shared trauma; Needy getting revenge--trauma about her loss of Chip and Jen. Creates imagined violence punishing "rapists"; violence not rooted in self-defense; or emphasizes Self defense narrative