This looks fun.
Annihilation is based on the first book in a trilogy from author Jeff VanderMeer, and the story involves an all-female research team heading into an environmental disaster zone labelled Area X. Inside they find all sorts of strange creatures and plant mutations, and their sanity slowly begins to crumble the deeper they investigate.
https://youtu.be/89OP78l9oF0
Why women only? In reality women seldom risk at such affairs.
ReplyDeleteWhy does fiction have to only have men or a mix of men and women ? Why can't it be about women ?
ReplyDeletePlus, aliens causing inter-species hydridization => there are much more unrealistic things here than "only women".
ReplyDeleteThere are two reasons:
ReplyDelete1. Because story to be realistic, have to be in agreement with someone experience. Women only teams, the only area I have ever met, was finance and HR departments.
2. Because women only team in such circumstances has its reason, and is is usually marketing ones. It is just something which is called objectification, and is used in order to sell goods to people who are sensitive to such approach. Of course it is usually sex which is selling ( like in Charlie's angels movies) but who said it has to be only fantasy used for such purposes? So it's not very good idea, to objectify women for money..
Why? Because they wanted to see if/hoped that would make this expedition work better than all the previous expeditions into Area X.
ReplyDeleteHaving a team of women-only automatically constitutes objectification ? Sigh. This is why we can't have nice things...
ReplyDeleteRhys Taylor objectification comes from idea it would be better for financial results from the movie :)
ReplyDeleteKazimierz Kurz So you really think they choose this book because of the composition of the 12th expedition? Or that they should have changed it for the movie?
ReplyDeleteIt doesn't really look like a sexploitation flick to me. It's just a bunch of smart women having an adventure. If we can have movies about smart guys having adventures, we ought to be able to do the same with women without going crazy about their gender.
ReplyDeleteYou bring the most interesting people together, Rhys Taylor.
ReplyDeleteRhys Taylor I am not going to be crazy. It is the same objections as in a case of Prometheus. Reality doesn't look like this, and for people looking for smart entertainment it is just pathetic.
ReplyDeleteI don't get it, Kazimierz Kurz. How can you find the fact that a bunch of women are doing the adventuring to be more objectionable than the alien monsters, which we don't even have in reality (on Earth) at all ? Have you never met women ? Here's a bunch of 'em, including all-female exploration teams :
ReplyDeletehttps://www.livescience.com/31297-extreme-female-explorers.html
Honestly, I rest my case. This is just plain silly.