"Original Sin"

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This paper examines how the film "Original Sin" upholds a lot of the gender constructs held by American society such as the four themes in media that reflect and promote traditional images of relations between the sexes, the double bind of femininity/competence, the dilemmas of femininity and hegemonic masculinity. It also shows how it empowers women through the dialogue and actions of the characters in the movie to bring to light the new American views of society.

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"This movie for the main part does seem to embody all the oppressive stereotypes, but the dialogue and actions do suggest that they are trying to break free from them. Several times the woman gets the last word. The few times women were shown in the public sphere they exerted power over the men or shared it. Julia showed to be very powerful in parts of the movie. In the end it was her who saved Luis, and her who helped him stay a bread winner by teaching and helping him to cheat at poker. This movie was full of minorities, but for taken place in Mexico it's a shame only one of them was a person of power, and that they had a lot of white people in implied power for the fact that it wasn't even in a white dominated country."

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