This film is a spin-off film of Ocean's 11-13 (Eleven to Thirteen Arhats) series, which tells the story of a group of female thieves who stole rare jewelry and finally succeeded. The cast is extremely luxurious, and many Hollywood first-line actresses gather together to compete for beauty. Sandra Bullock and Cate Blanchett are domineering, Anne Hathaway plays the star, and Rihanna plays the hacker.
However, although this film is a female group play, and the final result is that the women's treasure stealing team defeated the male-dominated security team, it is not a feminist film. Feminist films are, of course, about having women as protagonists, but that's not enough. The film should not be a biography of the traditional concept of a good wife and a good mother, and the female characters should not be devoted to the so-called true love. Instead, the film should subvert gender stereotypes, rebel against patriarchy and patriarchy, and grow female characters accordingly. Therefore, the same Disney cartoons, "Ocean" and "Frozen" are feminist movies, but "Beauty and the Beast" is not. Neither is this film.
The reason is that the protagonist Debbie formed a group to steal treasure, not because she liked those jewels, nor to prove her ability, but to take revenge on her old lover who had betrayed her. This kind of revenge is not a resistance to patriarchy, but an identification with the rules of the patriarchal game in the form of confrontation, showing that the meaning of women is ultimately inseparable from the word "love". This is a bit of a fallacy. Compared with one cry, two troubles and three hangs, it is only a high-level technique, but there is no essential difference.
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