Blog 7

The movie that I have chosen to review is called " Changling". It is a perfect example of gender. The movie is set back in the 1940's, and it is about a single mother and her fight to find her son. Her son was kidnapped one afternoon while she was at work. The whole movie is about how the government sends her a different boy and tries to convince her that it is her son. The people who worked for the government would not believe her. The government workers were mostly men, and because she is a woman it would look bad for them to admit that a woman had proved them wrong. The movie was advertised by showing her constantly trying to convince they government that her son was still missing, and that they were wrong. In this film the gender significance is that a woman couldn't prove a man wrong no matter how easy it was to see that they were right. The head guy even had the power to throw her in an insane assylm! I think that this portrayal is very true for the time period. But I think that it is awful that this kind of thing went on back then. They wouldn't even let her speak, it was almost like because she was a woman she wasn't good enough to have rights. Obviously she would know if the boy was her son or not. This movie just made it very clear about what things were like between men and women in the past.