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Thelma And Louise Research Paper

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I found Thelma & Louise, an American crime drama, to be an interesting, positive movie. It seems to me, everything in the film has the intention to deliver a strong message to its female audience. Thelma & Louise is an excellent movie because it manages to show both the fun aspects of a road trip and its dark side, such as rape, trauma, getting robbed, and crimes against females. Watching this movie reminded me of Brian Tracy’s book “Eat that Frog!”. In this book, he asks, “How do you eat an elephant?” and he immediately answers,” One bite at a time!” (Tracy 14). The 1991 movie Thelma & Louise, directed by Ridley Scott, reminded me of a big elephant. I had to analyze this big elephant of the world of cinema, bite-by-bite, sequence-by-sequence, …show more content…

The screenwriter Callie Khouri, also won a Golden Globe in 1992 for best screenplay. Some people believe that this movie is an anti-men movie, I do not agree with them; instead, I believe its a women empowering movie; it encourages women to take action in their lives and not wait for anyone to rescue them. The movie encourages women to dream big and believe in themselves. Thelma & Louise is not based on a real story, but I am sure every woman can relate to a sequence that might resemble her life.
In this incredible movie, the major themes are freedom, women empowerment, and independency. I’m watching two friends who have nothing in common but their friendship. Thelma is a dependent immature housewife and her biggest challenge in life is keeping everything clean in her house. In addition, she is not able to make any decisions in life by herself. Her biggest accomplishment is planning to go on a trip with her close friend, Louise; this is very new to her as she does not go anywhere without her husband. On the other hand, Louise is an independent woman, who is bossy and does not need any help to survive in society. It appears that the reason behind this trip was to simply have fun, but to me that is not the real reason for leaving home. They want to go on that trip since their partner have been ignoring them and they are fed up with their life. They are both very lonely, maybe not physically since Thelma has a husband, Darryl …show more content…

One of the most influential philosophers, Immanuel Kant, introduced the term, Transcendental. According to Kent, "I call all knowledge transcendental if it is occupied, not with objects, but with the way that we can possibly know objects even before we experience them." (Critique of Pure Reason A12). Once Thelma and Louise experienced what it is to make their own choices and take responsibility for their own actions, they realized they have experienced something new that they never felt it before. They tasted freedom. Therefore, there is no reason to go back. In the last part of the movie, where the police cars and the helicopter were chancing their car, Thelma and Louise knew that the road had came to an end; the car goes over the cliff of Grand Canyon. They chose to be free. I believe Ridley Scott makes it easy for me to understand what these ladies are doing is necessary to their freedom and

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