私密的情慾女人我最大

女人我最大

Without Men
影片年份：2011
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色　　彩：color
音　　效： 導演： 嘉碧艾拉塔吉艾維尼

編劇： James Canon
嘉碧艾拉塔吉艾維尼

演員： 伊娃·朗格利亞
克利斯汀史萊特
Oscar Nunez
凱特戴卡斯提洛

As hard as atrocities such as Sex and the City 2 and Confessions of a Shopaholic have tried, there are still a handful of female roles out there that don't reduce an entire gender to a shrieking vision of dildo-waving and consumerism. You just need to look at James Cañón's book Tales From the Town of Widows for proof.

The story of a small Colombian village left stranded when all its men are abducted by a guerilla army, the novel has been praised for its starkly realistic portrayal of women who are forced to create and maintain a new society without relying on outdated masculine ideals. And now it has been turned into a film, titled Without Men. Can this adaptation strike the same gutsy note for feminism as Tales From the Town of Widows? Let's take a look at the trailer and find out ...

1) It seems that Without Men is predominantly a Christian Slater vehicle. But don't let that put you off – remember the powerful feminist subtext in films such as Mindhunters and Young Guns II: Blaze of Glory. Slater plays a hard-boiled journalist in the only area of the Colombian jungle to have a mobile phone signal. He's been tipped off about a story – inevitably, the story of a village without men.

2) Here we see the village's male residents being carted away by the guerillas, leaving only women and a priest. How will the villagers be able to fend for themselves without men? Clearly, it's time for one woman – the strongest woman – to stand up and take charge, casting aside men's shallow perceptions of femininity and building her reign upon the fundamental tenets of feminism. Who could this woman possibly be?

3) Oh, it's Eva Longoria out of Desperate Housewives. But don't worry. Just because she advertises shampoo and ice cream for a living, it doesn't mean that Eva Longoria can't also be staunch and complex and capable of leading an entire community. Just look at her to-do list. The first point is 'restore electricity'. Admittedly, the last two points are 'ban complaining' and 'prohibit nagging', but let's brush over that. Eva Longoria is still sensible enough not to reduce herself to an insulting, male-driven idea of how women act when they're alone. So, what will be her first action as leader?

Still, hopefully the film will end with all the women learning that there is much more to being a woman than simply adhering to an offensive set of loosely-drawn gender traits. Hopefully they can demonstrate that they are perfectly able to form a community through their collective strength of spirit. Hopefully they can even remind the world of cinema that there's still a place for strong female characters.