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Main Point: Thelma and Louise is simultaneously an engaging, cat and mouse hunt between two females outlaws and the police and a larger reflection on male-dominated culture and how this world shapes these two characters. The film emphasizes this larger cultural message through the symbolic use of trucks. As Thelma and Louise dominate the trucks, they empowering women and defeating male dominated society. The physical relationship between the women’s car and different trucks mimics Thelma and Louise’s dismissal of the male dominated cultureIn the first segment, immediately following the two women shooting the man at the bar, the trucks keep passing them on the highway. They pull over to the side, as cars constantly pass and they are in extreme distress. In the second segment, they released themselves from the grasp of males. In demonstrating this position, they begin to physically pass the trucks on the highway and force the truck to pull over.The truck driver is representative of men and the male dominated culture. In the second scene, they actively threaten and essentially control this man. By physically shooting the truck and blowing it up, they embracing their independence and free from the control of the men around them. There are many trucks around in all the journey scenes. This is another physical representation of the male versus female society. The women drive a small car, while large trucks pass them. Like the male society, the trucks dominate the road. At the beginning, they honk loudly, muting the cries of the women, as men “mute” the cries of women in society.
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Main Point: Thelma and Louise is simultaneously an engaging, cat and mouse hunt between two females outlaws and the police and a larger reflection on male-dominated culture and how this world shapes these two characters. The film emphasizes this larger cultural message through the symbolic use of trucks. As Thelma and Louise dominate the trucks, they empowering women and defeating male dominated society.
The physical relationship between the women’s car and different trucks mimics Thelma and Louise’s dismissal of the male dominated culture
In the first segment, immediately following the two women shooting the man at the bar, the trucks keep passing them on the highway. They pull over to the side, as cars constantly pass and they are in extreme distress.
In the second segment, they released themselves from the grasp of males. In demonstrating this position, they begin to physically pass the trucks on the highway and force the truck to pull over.
The truck driver is representative of men and the male dominated culture.
In the second scene, they actively threaten and essentially control this man. By physically shooting the truck and blowing it up, they embracing their independence and free from the control of the men around them.
There are many trucks around in all the journey scenes.
This is another physical representation of the male versus female society. The women drive a small car, while large trucks pass them. Like the male society, the trucks dominate the road. At the beginning, they honk loudly, muting the cries of the women, as men “mute” the cries of women in society.
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