True that can be said - but I really don't think it's the case with this film.
For me, I think it's realistic that a girl who was molested by her step father would have some fucked up and sexulized delusions after she accidentally kills her sister and is thrown into an insane asylum.
The thing is she fights those delusions and in doing so goes into a deeper level of delusion where she is at various points Ripley from Alien, Lady Luna from Final Fantasy, Sarah Conner from Terminator, Sonya Blade from Mortal Kombat, Dorthy from the Wizard of Oz and Laura Croft from Tomb Raider.
I find it completely convincing and not cliche at all that a teenage girl would identify with those characters during a dissociation since they are pretty most popular strong female characters in pop culture.
That doesn't make the film about empowerment - it's not - it makes it about coping mechanisms.
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For me, I think it's realistic that a girl who was molested by her step father would have some fucked up and sexulized delusions after she accidentally kills her sister and is thrown into an insane asylum.
The thing is she fights those delusions and in doing so goes into a deeper level of delusion where she is at various points Ripley from Alien, Lady Luna from Final Fantasy, Sarah Conner from Terminator, Sonya Blade from Mortal Kombat, Dorthy from the Wizard of Oz and Laura Croft from Tomb Raider.
I find it completely convincing and not cliche at all that a teenage girl would identify with those characters during a dissociation since they are pretty most popular strong female characters in pop culture.
That doesn't make the film about empowerment - it's not - it makes it about coping mechanisms.