Feminism In Film~ Thelma and Louise

     
      Okie dokie!Before we venture into this blog, we've got to know.... What is feminism? Feminism 
is the ideologies of the way a woman should behave based on the viewpoint of a society. In the 1990's, Feminism played a huge role in people's everyday lives. The married women were to wake up early in the morning, get all dolled up and run their pretty little butts downstairs and cook breakfast for their husbands and those who weren't had to get jobs and work twice as hard as a married woman. Women were not aloud to go against the word of their husbands even if he was being unreasonable. The film Thelma and Louise is a great example of what feminism was in the 1990's.

      Thelma is a stay at home wife. She lives with her husband Darrel and no children because Darrel doesn't want them. She takes the verbal abuse from him and does nothing about it. Louise on the other hand is a free spirit who even though she has a boyfriend, Jimmy, works for herself and doesn't take crap from anyone. When Louise invites Thelma to go away with her for the weekend, she doesn't even bother asking her husband's permission to go and just leaves for she knows he'd never allow it. At a trip to a bar, Louise shoots a man for almost raping Thelma and they drive off as fast as they can. The two girls plan to go to Mexico so they will not get caught. Their weekend getaway turned into a life long crime spree.

       Throughout the film, Thelma becomes tougher and feels more alive. She goes from the innocent clean house wife who would never even touch a gun, to a rouge and dangerous wild woman who doesn't go anywhere with her pistol. Louise becomes a little less self confident but also feels more alive than ever before. They are on the run and they like it, until one day, the cops catch up to them and their refugee road trip comes to an end.  

     Thelma and Louise go against the idea of feminism because they ran away, shot a man, robed stores, slept with men they weren't married too and went against the words and warnings of the male population. They didn't let the fact that they were women stop them from doing the thing people thought only a man could do. This film shows women to never let society determine what you can and can't do just because of your gender. You are your own person and you make your own path.