Focus is a movie that came out lately (2015) starring at professional actors such as Will Smith playing under the name Nick Spurgeon and Margot Robbie who is Jess. Nick is a veteran con while Jess was a novice at the time they met. He decided to take her under his wing after he realized that she tried to steal his money. They then became closer. In the following assignment, we’ll make a critical analysis, and then we’ll show how women, men and relationships are portrayed in the movie. Finally, we’ll talk about why the choice of this movie and give final impressions about the portrayal of men and women in this movie.
As mentioned above, the movie Focus is about two cons, one professional who is Nicky and one amateur Jess. …show more content…
Women are defined in this movie by their way of communicating. “ Language reinforces social views of sex and gender, (Julia T. Wood, p: 136). When Nicky and Jess met for the first time, they started to talk to get to know each other and to establish .a relationship She used her beauty to attract men and it worked with Nicky too. She is portrayed as an object of attraction in the movie. She could get any men she wanted in one word because she was beautiful and she knew it. It was necessary. She also showed responsiveness to everything Nicky was telling her with a great eye contact, which made him fall in …show more content…
The con business looked free, but there were rules involved. The director of operations was a man because men are trusted more than women in business. In society, we know how hard it is for women not placed in high positions because they are thought to be weak, emotional and helpless regarding some of the situations. Her job was only to stay beautiful and act so. She was not given responsibilities, not because she was not good at what she was doing but they thought that if she gets emotionally involved with Nicky she will lose control and her abilities. He never let her act alone in their case. He always assisted her, even without her knowing. When they went to the football game, they started to make small bet to each other and got one big fan of bets named Liuyan involved in the game. Nicky lost 1.1 million but then proposed him to bet any player on the field and Jess will guess the number of his Jersey. Jess started to get emotional because she was scared, but then saw one of their coworker standing on the field with a Jersey 55 and then understood what was happening and they won double of the 1.1 million. When they left, he explained her the whole scenario of how she was the “blind mouse” in this game but then he agreed that she was smart enough to understand and catch up with him for them to win. Also another stereotype about men is for them to be strong, without
As mentioned above, the movie Focus is about two cons, one professional who is Nicky and one amateur Jess. …show more content…
Women are defined in this movie by their way of communicating. “ Language reinforces social views of sex and gender, (Julia T. Wood, p: 136). When Nicky and Jess met for the first time, they started to talk to get to know each other and to establish .a relationship She used her beauty to attract men and it worked with Nicky too. She is portrayed as an object of attraction in the movie. She could get any men she wanted in one word because she was beautiful and she knew it. It was necessary. She also showed responsiveness to everything Nicky was telling her with a great eye contact, which made him fall in …show more content…
The con business looked free, but there were rules involved. The director of operations was a man because men are trusted more than women in business. In society, we know how hard it is for women not placed in high positions because they are thought to be weak, emotional and helpless regarding some of the situations. Her job was only to stay beautiful and act so. She was not given responsibilities, not because she was not good at what she was doing but they thought that if she gets emotionally involved with Nicky she will lose control and her abilities. He never let her act alone in their case. He always assisted her, even without her knowing. When they went to the football game, they started to make small bet to each other and got one big fan of bets named Liuyan involved in the game. Nicky lost 1.1 million but then proposed him to bet any player on the field and Jess will guess the number of his Jersey. Jess started to get emotional because she was scared, but then saw one of their coworker standing on the field with a Jersey 55 and then understood what was happening and they won double of the 1.1 million. When they left, he explained her the whole scenario of how she was the “blind mouse” in this game but then he agreed that she was smart enough to understand and catch up with him for them to win. Also another stereotype about men is for them to be strong, without