gender polotics
how do you think wanda is represented compared to films such as bonnie and clyde.
It seems that maybe wanda and bonnie have similar aims but bonnie is more succesfull in these aims
opinions please? :)
old thread, but I just saw the film.
I felt it recalled Bonnie and Clyde, but was funnier and more realistic in the the depiction of criminal life.
Criminals aren't romantically tragic anti-heroes who burn brighter than the rest; more often they are listless, ill, beleaguered, losers who simply fill into that unglamorous & painful life.
I liked Bonnie and Clyde okay, but prefer this film's representation of the shadow/absurd side of that story.
Now what does that have to do with gender polotics?
I thought the burgers scene was funny because I hate onions on my burgers too!
share^^^ And didn't you just know she was going to mess that order up?! When she came back, I kept repeating, "There's going to be onions on those. There's going to be onions those."
Back to the OP, though: Bonnie knew what she wanted. She had drive, ambition, but it was turned in a wrong direction. Wanda was listless, had no control over anything, didn't even understand, really, how to make a decision for herself (until the end) or what was even happening to her half the time. She just went where the wind blew her.
CaptainTerrific says > Bonnie knew what she wanted. She had drive, ambition, but it was turned in a wrong direction. Wanda was listless, had no control over anything, didn't even understand, really, how to make a decision for herself (until the end) or what was even happening to her half the time. She just went where the wind blew her.I agree. Besides the fact they were both women and criminals, I'm not sure how Wanda was anything like Bonnie of Bonnie and Clyde fame. There are people that have messed up lives because they knowingly make the wrong choices; that's Bonnie. On the other hand, Wanda seems to have always stumbled through life.
Wanda had absolutely no self-worth and lacked any formal education. Even if she had managed to avoid getting involved in criminal activities, her life seemed destined for misery and unhappiness. Bonnie seemed far ahead of Wanda. She seemed like she could have had a normal,, even happy life if she hadn't chosen to go into crime. The two characters show there's more than one way to waste a life.
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