Bryan Film Studies

         Feminism in Film - Thelma & Louise

The Film Thelma & Louise was an exciting and surprising movie. It does a great job at adding twists to the story when you least expect it. It also makes you care for and even hate certain characters. It shows you how strong women can be as he overcome some crazy obstacles an come across some very perverted and overpowering men that try to take advantage of both Thelma & Louise. 

In my opinion, I personally hated Thelma throughout most of the movie. It was basically her fault that they had to go on his huge run away from the Police, even though I guess that's the whole point of the movie. From the beginning Thelma wanted to have fun and "let her hair down" but by wanting this, it lead to her getting drunk and flirting with some guy that appears to be nice, but then in the end, the guy ends up almost raping her. Which then led to him getting shot, which was the start of them running for the law. If she was drunk and the guy was obviously flirting with her, what did she expect was going to happen? 

Throughout the film Thelma messes up a lot of things. She puts too much trust in guys that she has never met in her life, and is too open about her personal life to strangers. She also doesn't have a lot of common sense. Thelma again lets some guy that she doesn't even know into her hotel room and then he takes advantage of her and also even steals the money that they desperately needed. He even told her that she was a robber. Again, what did she expect to happen?