thought of the day

[tielan]

Jupiter's story in Jupiter Ascending is the same as the technician's story in Captain America 2: The Winter Soldier - you know, the guy who has Rumlow holding a weapon to his head and ordering him to release the Insight program to Hydra and says, "Sorry, can't do it. Captain's orders."

A nobody - a cog in the wheel, an unimportant, nameless person - suddenly becomes a key player in massive, unspeakable destruction. And they're faced with a choice: the personal vs the important.

Both of them choose the important over the personal.

Except that women are not usually shown making the choice of the important over the personal. A man may sacrifice everything in order to save the world and still be a hero (albeit an angst-ridden one), but a woman must sacrifice everything to save her family or she'll fail to save the world, fail to save her family, and have nothing but guilt.

It's like the people who write stories want women to feel guilty over being the hero.

Jupiter chooses the important over the personal and is still the hero of the story.

And this is why I believe telling stories about women are important. This is why I write women.

Comments

[alexseanchai]

Must see JA. I will probably keep saying this until my disc arrives from Amazon.

[tielan]

It's funny (or possibly not). As much as I love JA, I keep feeling the need to modify my love for it. "It's not everyone's cup of tea" or "a lot of people didn't like it" or "you just have to take it as popcorn".

It's annoying, but that's my first instinct when someone says "you really enjoyed JA; I should go see that".

[rmc28]

Everything I hear about it convinces me that it is utterly my cup of tea :-)

[tielan]

It's a very nice cup of tea, exactly how I like it.