EXERCISE 12.1:

The film that me and Farah have decided to discuss is 'Silent Hill'2006 which is a horror movie, because both of us have seen this movie before, and it also shows the changing roles of women throughout the years and she is not only represented as a housewife as in the 70's or as a male gaze (Mulvey), but she is now represented with power and she is actually dominating and taking the whole responsibility without having any Male's help, this is shown in the movie when she takes her daughter to this place called 'Silent Hill' where she always wished to go, and they go alone without any male supporting, this therefore is shown to go against the Mulvey theory and the ideology of male patriarchy.
The mother is not represented as a sex object because there is no indication shown by her dress or any sexual scenes, she is however represented as strong and having power and able to rule the society.
Whereas the male in this case is rarely shown, but only towards the end when he is shown as taking some responsibility and going to look for his wife and daughter, but he tries his best ans still not finds them, that is showing as maybe being weak.
The other strength being shown by the female character and showing her domination, by showing her making her own decision to take her daughter to 'Silent Hill' without asking for the permission of her husband, this therefore shows how the women is being independent and how the role of the women changed and not being anymore ruled by the male.
At the end, the women is the one shown as being successful and turns out to be heroic, after all the problems she and her daughter have faced with the aliens and those unknown 'strange people', she was finally able to save her daughter from them and get back to their house.
To sum up this therefore shows that not only male have power and dominate the society, but also females have now power and able to take the responsibility and be independent.