#I have a lot of thoughts about Colt's childhood flashback sequences and the development of his ill-will towards his mother growing into

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Hey so I saw your post about Visiting hours. Sorry for messaging out of the blue but it's one of my favorite movies so seeing that made me really happy. I'd totally talk about the protagonists :)

Ah! Hello :D

Not weird to message me out of the blue at all ^__^ I love to chat.

I shall rant now under the cut about the girls and would love to hear any related thoughts you have :D

Okay the thing that struck me most about the two female protagonists in Visiting Hours was the idea of what it means to be a feminist? the question sort of about whether or not being a woman automatically makes you a feminist + the perception of the two women based on the perceived gender role of their professions. Like Deborah keeps getting labeled as a feminist just automatically for being a woman in her profession, despite the fact that her defense of the woman on trial for suspected murder of her abusive husband is clearly mostly a fight against the flimsy "evidence" that the woman's injuries were self-inflicted, and it's the other characters arguing with her that keep making it a gender/women's rights thing when that angle of it doesn't really seem to be her focus. Her focus is much more on the injustice of the way this woman's case is being poorly handled: evidence being ignored/her lawyer clearly being too inexperienced for the case, etc. But just because she's a woman in what's perceived to be a man's job she keeps getting labeled a feminist and having her talking points made out to be feminist ideology instead of just like, regular talking points about flaws in the justice system. Which like, of course all of these things are related to systemic misogyny, but at the same time they aren't inherently feminist problems, and like I got the impression that she'd be arguing the same points even if the gender roles were reversed in the case she's covering.

I think there's something similar to be said about Sheila who, as a nurse, is being perceived as working in a "woman's job". But I'm not quite sure how to explain what I think about that lol. Like the way they're both getting treated/mistreated in their jobs is sort of complimenting/contrasting each other.

#sorry it took me a bit to respond to this #I wanted to collect my thoughts and then accidentally forgot about this in my drafts and I feel like my thoughts are still really #disorganized. oops lol #asks #THANKS FOR THE ASK #visiting hours #I have a lot of thoughts about Colt's childhood flashback sequences and the development of his ill-will towards his mother growing into #like full blown violent misogyny. if youre interested. but I wanted to talk about the girls first <3 haha