I don't know what I did to myself, when I chose the most "masculine" month to watch a docu dealing with the history of female objectification in cinema for its history.
As in football, it's worth spending more than an hour watching for some exciting scoring moments that definitely exist in this docu.
Director Nina Menkes took more than 175 clips from more than 100 years of cinema.
From "Gone with the Wind" and "Eyes Wide Shut", through the treatment of the Bond girls, to the requested comparisons about how men are photographed in films like "Top Gun".
With the help of the examples, she tries and succeeds in revealing the visual manipulations used by the male industry.
For example, you can see how women tend to be photographed mainly focusing on their intimate body parts.
Menkes, backed by a host of female directors and actresses in Hollywood, analyzed the camera angles, the lighting and the choice of fools of women in the cinema.
The basic promise to reveal how the world famous films invented and established the method of objectifying women is more than worthy.
Our consciousness is affected by the position of the woman in the scenes on the big screen, on the small screen and in the commercial breaks.
A worthy promise.
From the program, photo: courtesy of yes
But some basic problems prevent the large-scale project from succeeding and leaving an impression on the reasonable viewer.
First and foremost - this is a video lecture.
On a stage, in front of an audience, Menks delivers a serious and heavy presentation, and the terminology throughout is taken from third-year gender courses combined with advanced directing and photography classes.
Navigating the sea of concepts while trying to understand why Nicole Kidman is photographed from one angle or another - this is not exactly a user-friendly television event.
Manx presents more than 175 examples, only most of them are not really taken from iconic films, and quite a few of them are altogether foreign and strange.
The ability to explain through Japanese films a society whose gender codes are not recognized in the first place, is like missing the viewer in front of an empty goal.
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