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The Female Characters

posted 13 years ago by bruce-toms
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I like Bridget Moynihan, but the character she played was the typical angry, self-centered American wife. Very two-dimensional. The problem seems to be that writers and directors have a hard time envisioning American women as people with true feminine warmth (see the disastrous turn of Karen Allen in "Indian Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.") I certainly hope young American women aren't using these characters as role models!

The girlfriend character played by Margarita Levieva is unbalanced in a different direction, as a sex-crazed Russian emigre. But I have to say I liked her adventurousness and warmth, which added interest, by comparison to the wife.

[–] DaliParton 12 years ago

Have you considered that the characters were specifically intended to be opposites? Remember the dialog about car alarms being one-way communicators, and how the more arbitrary and capricious the more power is respected? Moynihan's character was the embodiment of that philosophy.

[–] timlin-4 10 years ago

It's called realism. Except the wife was portrayed a more sympathetic character than the typical American woman actually is, but this is after all a fictional movie