5.) Gender Roles
The roles for men in this movie, is to be the worker, provider, the head of the house. The women are stay at home moms, that bake all day and do daily house choirs. The stereotype is that the don't do anything but sit around all day and gossip, which is showed in the movie. Peg is different because she works for an Avon company. Even though it may not be as hard as the men's job she still leaves the home enviroment to make money, and in that town that wold be very..out of the ordinary. The movies is set in the 50's era,so I think it is appropriate for the roles to be the way they are. I will throw in that Tim Burton probably also picked the 50's era because its one of many of his trade markes in his movies. The girls or women in his movies seem to be under minded by a power of some sort, but they always seem to be the voice of reason like sally in the nightmare before Christmas, or they bring the aw-ha, realization moment to people like peg did. She gave people in that town the question to think about am I normal or is it ok to be different.
You're on to something in saying that it feels like it is set in the 50s because it does have a very suburban, conformist feeling to it, but it's actually set it the late 80s. You can tell by the cars, the waterbed, and the alarm system.
ReplyDeleteYou've got some pretty easy standard Enlgish edits you can make to clean this up ("choirs" vs. "chores," "aw-ha" vs. "ah-ha," etc.)