Word: protagonists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Essentially, this movie deals with choices and the inability of the protagonist to make any. He cannot choose between whether he wants to be a film maker or a musician he cannot decide if he wants men, women or even which ones from each of these. Responsibility, trust and some form of commitment are essential elements in any sort of relationship, but Jean is incapable of exercising any of these character traits. His overarching sense of denial seems to pervade all of his actions. And the inconsistency of the film's basic structure-its exaggeration, melodrama and useless subplots-reflects...
...make a point of creating a protagonist who wasn't Jewish for Heidi...
...this bourgeois Christmas Eve gathering, social dancing -- the children and their parents together -- fosters this gentle civilizing process. Later the young protagonist Marie (Jessica Lynn Cohen) has a dream touched off by her naughty kid brother Fritz, who breaks her favorite new toy, a nutcracker. The dream starts as a nightmare: the family's Christmas tree grows to alarming proportions; huge mice scuttle threateningly around her until they are conquered by a newly potent nutcracker (Culkin), who is then transformed into an angelic, pink-suited prince. Thereafter the dream becomes a cotton-candy fantasy as the prince escorts Marie...
MEET JOHNNY, THE INTELLIGENT, NIHIListic protagonist of Naked. The first view of him could not be more savage. In a dark, scabrous alley he has shoved a woman against a wall and is raping her. For the next two hours, he stumbles through a London nighttown of despairing, inarticulate souls, watching with embittered eyes and delivering mordant, nonstop opinions on everything from Homer to Nostradamus to the Berlin Wall. When last seen, he has been severely beaten and is limping down the middle of a suburban street in an eerie dance to nowhere. As he says, there are plenty...
...Ruby in Paradise" is clearly a very contemporary attempt to adress the "big questions," like "Gas, Food, Lodging" before it. In that film, the protagonist finds fulfillment in embracing traditional femininity. Both of these films are reactive responses to the issues brought up by the radical feminism of the 70's. While both stories try to escape the idea of "woman as the oppressed," "Ruby in Paradise" comes closer to achieving this while preserving the positive feminist goal of mental and spiritual independence...