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Busty Woman
Posted by: Brian | January 29, 2009 | Comments Off on Busty Woman
I agree that the busty woman was more liberated in terms of sexual desire yet I feel that she was just as objectified as the other women within the movie if not more. When she falls down all the men fondle her in front of her over-controlling, angry and violent boyfriend. This could be viewed as a violation of the female body however at the same time she does not make any protestations or objections to being fondled. Therefore she uses her sexual allure in order to gain power especially in opposition to her boyfriend. At the beginning of the race her boyfriend speaks harshly to her yet in the middle of the conflict she takes the reins by taking away his gun. Once she takes this object of power away from him, he seems to be entirely at her mercy. It seems that the busty woman knows the power restraints of women within a male patriarchy yet she uses this to her advantage.
