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The commodification of females in GIGI

Posted by:	lordofspeech 10:07 am EST 11/23/14
In reply to:	re: ''Gigi'': ''Overnight, there's been a ... change in you'' - LegitOnce 10:41 am EST 11/22/14

The "Gigi" film's storyline is fraught with political incorrectness and the glamorization of a system which, while granting women a certain autonomy over their finances, cedes ultimate authority to the wealthy males in society. There's a lot to be dealt with in this story if one wishes to make it palatable to a Broadway kid-oriented market. I think Honore's sophisticated (and beautiful) appreciation of the feminine is the least of their worries. SPOILER It's a period piece, and it has the saving grace that Gigi herself becomes a wife-consort rather than a mistress-courtesan, but its context is all about the marketing of females as sex-slaves and the privilege of monied males as predators. I'm not opposed to the story, and I enjoy the film for its ability to embrace this world without American-Puritan judgement, but trying to clean things up might backfire. Will it really seem nicer to hear Gigi's caretakers extol her virtues in "Thank Heaven for Little Girls" while they're grooming her for "the life"? A very slippery slope.

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