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The girls and I went to see PoTC: AWE tonight.
The short version: I actually liked Dead Man's Chest better.
There are many reasons for this not least of which is the strong impression left by the end of the movie that Elizabeth spends the next 10 years barefoot, pregnant and waiting for the one day each decade she and Will can spend together. To say that I thought the end of the movie robbed her character of her narrative agency is putting in mildly. I felt a crushing disappointment to see the most high-profile female film character of the decade, the character who's initiative drove the plot of the first two movies, reduced to the most cliched stereotype of romance novel covergirl, waiting on a windswept cliff with adorable urchin for her lover to return while every other character sails off towards a new adventure.
Elizabeth Swan was never content to be The Girl and that's why I loved her. And maybe that's why, in the end, the male screenwriters, producers and director who made POTC felt they needed to put Elizabeth back in her place: wife; mother; not wanted on the voyage.
Fuck that.
The short version: I actually liked Dead Man's Chest better.
There are many reasons for this not least of which is the strong impression left by the end of the movie that Elizabeth spends the next 10 years barefoot, pregnant and waiting for the one day each decade she and Will can spend together. To say that I thought the end of the movie robbed her character of her narrative agency is putting in mildly. I felt a crushing disappointment to see the most high-profile female film character of the decade, the character who's initiative drove the plot of the first two movies, reduced to the most cliched stereotype of romance novel covergirl, waiting on a windswept cliff with adorable urchin for her lover to return while every other character sails off towards a new adventure.
Elizabeth Swan was never content to be The Girl and that's why I loved her. And maybe that's why, in the end, the male screenwriters, producers and director who made POTC felt they needed to put Elizabeth back in her place: wife; mother; not wanted on the voyage.
Fuck that.