This October is the fifth anniversary of the epidemic. Me too. There have been many important turning points in the history of feminism, but this has undoubtedly been fundamental to a generation of women who have remained silent about many things for too long, fearing the consequences, whether at work or in the personal setting. It was a moment of implosion, when the abuses protected and permitted by the entire patriarchal system finally came to light, a turning point that undoubtedly constituted one of the greatest revolutions of our time.
Sorority, until then an obscure concept, took on real meaning. The women met, testified and helped uncover. Atrocities committed by Hollywood mogul Harvey Wenstein. Together they unleashed the beast (it exists everywhere) and managed to shake up the power relations. As Isabel Coixet said when she recently presented the documentary ‘El sostre groc’ (about the abuses committed in the Lleida Theater Class) at the San Sebastian Festival, sexual predator tactics are always the samebut its normalization was such that it made the victims guilty. Eventually, this feeling was dispelled and the testimonies of thousands of women came to light in networks that shared their experiences in the first person, something that literature and audiovisual fiction also fall into.
By now, vague topics like consent have begun to be brought to the table, and creators have embarked on an empowerment process to appropriate their stories and give them a voice. The women’s appropriation of their stories was another step forward. raised a whole new generation of writers, directors and screenwriters contributed to the initiation of a different view that contributed to enriching our view of the world we live in.
Maybe that’s why the ‘Blonde’ case is so painful, a film that would have certainly aroused suspicion ten years ago, but it’s a step back in the way women are currently represented on screen. The perspective provided by Andrew Dominic is defamatory due to his misogynistic nature, which he never hides or even is responsible for asserting. really humiliating aperture and poor quality close-ups. It is alarming that this procedure is acclaimed by many as a work of art. Constantly questioning women, subjecting them to disgrace, humiliating her using cinematographic language, results in humiliation of arrogance. It doesn’t matter if it’s Marilyn Monroe or not, because she’s secretly talking about all of us and the historical ordeal that this deeply perverted masculine point of view has subjected us to.