Films and Television, Music and Books.

One of the less talked about critical themes explored in the film The Running Man is the exploration of women's roles both in a nihilistic future and therefore contemporary America. And how the media treats women and commodifies  their bodies to sell product. If we remember that repeated imagery in the moving image is the creators tool to express dialogue. In this post i will discuss the various women shown in the film, their roles and how they are treated by the male characters and the environment in which they exist.  i posted these two captures of the two protagonists, because its repeated imagery and when directors/producers film it , then it's often to show the visual alphabet of their narrative, hidden or otherwise. Glazer, the director seems to use the genre piece to highlight excessive horrors of a future world to reflect on injustices in our contemporary one. One of the main, and ignored i think, theme he explores is the misogyny inherent in our western cu...