The Women (Keepcase)
by George Cukor
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Author: Claire Boothe LuceActor: Joan Crawford, Joan Fontaine, Norma Shearer, Paulette Goddard, Rosalind Russell
Director: George Cukor
Brand: Warner Brothers
Other Contributor: David Snell
Other Contributor: Edward Ward
Producer: Hunt Stromberg
Writer: Anita Loos
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: Academy Ratio, 1.33:1
Running Time: 138 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-06-14
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Warner Home Video
DVD Reviews of The Women (Keepcase)
DVD Review: D I S A P P O I N T I N G
Summary: 2 Stars
I remember looking forward to seeing this movie. It boasts an all-female cast, (was it in this version, or in the newer one, that there WERE some males in bit parts?), and was called "THE WOMEN", so it would, I hoped, give breath and life to what women really want and think about. Which -- in my opinion at least --are mostly the very same things men want and think about: food, clothing, shelter, love, achievement, advancement, success in financial and personal realms, the fulfilment of talents, and the enjoyment of being with friends and relatives.....just to name a few.
Well, I suppose I should have expected what this movie had, from the time period in which it was made. Still, not-so-closet feminist that I am, I was REALLY disappointed in this movie. It was mainly about, (if I remember correctly), one woman's knowledge of her husband's affair, and not wanting "the other woman", (a close friend), to know that she knew this. I am ALL for the institution of marriage, and also ALL for divorce, if things sadly don't work out, and the marriage only serves to make each person in it miserable...but this movie was only full of catty conversations, (clever and witty though they are), and women talking about marriages that go apart, and being nasty to one another. There is one little girl in this movie, and I remember clearly being sorry for her: I mean, is THIS all she has to look foreward to, as she grows older?
If I don't remember much of the plot, I suppose this is psychological
elf-preservation on my part. Little -- if anything -- is mentioned about "The Women"'s careers, if, that is, any of them have them. Their main concern, (and career), seems to be holding on to, or seeking out, husbands whether they love them or not. There is precious little, (if any), friendship between these women -- just clever, catty conversation. Famous REAL women -- such as Muriel Siebert, Marie Curie, Madeline Albright, Eleanor Roosevelt, Meryl Streep, or even Queen Elizabeth II -- would find little to be comfortaable with, amongst the sly, manipulative, malicious, mean, and secretive women characters in this movie.
I suppose, during the time this play was written, that such "husband-hunting", and "husband-keeping" were all of the "careers" that were open to women. No -- wait a minute! Even then, women could be secretaries, teachers, and nurses. There were also many women who wrote both fiction and non-fiction. Women painters and pianists. Women who played other instruments in the orchestra -- and even women who composed music that other people played! There were also, then, (and now!), men and women who really did love each other, and who had long and successful, (and happy!), marriages. Men and women who respected each other, too. But here, even women don't resepct each other!
It is also interesting to note that the novels of Georgette Heyer -- which were set in Regency England, a long time BEFORE the period during which "The Women" takes place, and a period in which women had even fewer rights than they did in the 1930s and 1940s -- still portray women with higher regard for themselves, and others, than the argumntative and sneaky women in "The Women". Why? Because the characters in Gerogette Heyer's Regency novels all have SELF-RESPECT. Putting down others is NOT their primary goal, in and of itself. No, they will NOT let others take advantage of them -- but Georgette Heyer's women characters are more interested in accomplishing their goals, than in putting other people down. While trying to achieve THEIR ends, Ms. Heyer's characters ALWAYS have SELF-respect upper-most in their minds.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky wrote, (paraphrased), that "happy families are all alike, and therefore, boring. It is the unhappy families which are interesting...." I have always felt Dostoyevsky wrong here -- and the movie, (and play), "The Women" proves it. Here, we see that it is the UNHAPPY families that, if not all alike, (no mention of loving families where there is sickness and/or poverty is present -- or cam these actually be happy -- ie, loving -- families, upon whom sad times have come?), are greatly similar. Mainly, they have UNloving, catty, malicious, husband-hunting and husband-keeping females in them, to whom just BEING married is the most important thing -- with or, (as here), usually without love. But there ARE differences in HAPPY families. To give an example from TV families: the families on "Family Ties", "Father Knows Best", "Empty Nest", "McMillian and Wife", and "That Girl" have family members who are all (basically), happy in each other's company -- but are all vastly, vastly different.
I cannot understand why ANYONE would enjoy watching "The Women". It has SO many female stereotypes in it that it makes me, (also a woman), squirm in the greatest of disocmfort. I imagine that any man with an ounce of respect, (or at least, curiousity), about women, watching this movie, would say to himself: "Is THIS all I have to look forward to, when I get married?"
No, dear sir, fortunately, it is not. Women are, when one gets right down to it, just fellow(?) human beings. Women may have SOME proclivities that men do not, (and vice versa) -- but these are very, very minimal. All human beings, as I mentioned at the start of this review, basically want the same things. Amongst these, (which I neglected to mention at the beginning...but did touch on later), is RESPECT. Mutual respect between human beings -- whether between men and men, women and women, or men and women -- fulfills the basic human need to think to one's self: "I am important in this world. I have worth!" The stereotyped "women", in the movie and play, "The Women", have just about no self-respect. Nor do they respect others. They are shallow, one-dimensional characters. Why is "The Women" considered a classic? I don't know. And I think I never shall.
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