Gender Walking

Film Review # 45294

Film > Analysis, Criticism, Etc.
Gender and Sexuality > Gender Studies

Gender Walking

An examination of gender stereotyping by viewing a section of the movie, "Orlando."

998 words () | 1 source | MLA | 2001 United States

Paper Summary:

The segment of the film, "Orlando", which was chosen for this paper, represents our struggle as a species to beat each other with our differences. It shows one very quiet view of gender as a non-category, and how impossible it is for this non-gendering to occur any time in the near future, given what we have to work with in our limited intelligence and experience as a species.

From the Paper:

"After the study was made of the character, Orlando, played by Tilda Swinton, and her gender changes, specifically the scene of Orlando's metamorphoses from male to female, I concluded that much has been made of gender by both men and women. I found the need for gender splitting unnecessary in most cases. While it is true that we need to recognize the physical differences for the purpose of procreation in heterosexual relationships, even procreation rules are changing. To use these differences to place one sex in control of another proves how far we must travel in our personal examination of life before we can become whole."