Feminism

Rating: 7/10 (12 April 2013)

There are many different aspects that people consider when giving a movie a rating, one of the more important is the message that lies within the film itself. When the viewers watch the film there is a heavy tone of feminism. There are several major things that stand out, there are very few other women shown in the film, the entire time Maya acts like she runs the CIA, there is even an instance where she screams at her boss. In the script the message of feminism doesn't present itself as obviously and it was written by a male author, while the movie was directed by a female. There are small things a typical action-movie goer would notice that are a lot different than a typical action movie. It is advertised and seems like it would be an action movie but in reality it is just a drama with a very small amount of action. Some of the key things that would be noticed is that the main character is a girl that is not the most attractive and that most of the movie is portrayed at a struggle for women to gain power in the work place. Another thing is how much work she actually does, although there were tons of members helping her out the movie makes it seem as though she did all the work. The story should have just been called a documentary of Maya, because all that was ever really talked about was her. It discussed how she "was recruited out of high school" and that all she had ever worked on was the search for UBL. The entire story just shows how frustrated she is, and how much she finds, and what she can do to solve the problem. And it boils down to a point that makes almost makes it seem inaccurate just because there was so much of a focus on Maya, most people would probably be okay if it was a pure action movie and there were mistakes or inaccuracies but this draws a lot of attention to one person. Although there were many problems with this movie it still was an entertaining film the earned a solid seven out of ten stars. The story that was presented was still a quality story of a mission that took an extremely long amount of time to put together.