Are the so-called choices for women who want to become mothers really choices at all? In the documentary The Mommy Mystique: The Anxiety of Modern Motherhood, the women Judith Warner (author) speaks to, in her book, are middle and upper class who grew up in the 1970’s, the first generation to go to college and graduate school in percentages that match their counterparts. Women who grew up with feminist eloquence, if not part of that movement, they were accustomed to modern standards for women’s equality. Women who aspired to have careers. According to Warner, these women had absolutely no idea that raising a family would be so much more difficult than they expected. These women suffering the consequences of their expectations not meeting reality. There is much to default and to keep up even in middle
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The interviews with the four mothers are conducted in a dark room with a prismatic spotlight on each of them so as to elicit each of their personal accounts of what they are experiencing in motherhood. Each woman explains her own struggle and how it may relate to others in their demographic. The interviewer sits across from the women and makes a statement about how he does not understand why the women feel as they do. I think the strategy of having him sit on one side facing them is effective, in that you clearly see that he has an opposing view and he conducts questions based on trying to understand their point.
The spectral effects in this film create an array of aesthetic techniques that keeps the viewers attention. One incandescent glow over a woman as she is speaking about the anxiety of her function and duties as a mother impacts the ability to pull the audience in on an empathetic degree.
Along with the visuals there are a number of auditory approaches like a defenseless crying baby sound when the narrator uses the term, “mad as
The interviews with the four mothers are conducted in a dark room with a prismatic spotlight on each of them so as to elicit each of their personal accounts of what they are experiencing in motherhood. Each woman explains her own struggle and how it may relate to others in their demographic. The interviewer sits across from the women and makes a statement about how he does not understand why the women feel as they do. I think the strategy of having him sit on one side facing them is effective, in that you clearly see that he has an opposing view and he conducts questions based on trying to understand their point.
The spectral effects in this film create an array of aesthetic techniques that keeps the viewers attention. One incandescent glow over a woman as she is speaking about the anxiety of her function and duties as a mother impacts the ability to pull the audience in on an empathetic degree.
Along with the visuals there are a number of auditory approaches like a defenseless crying baby sound when the narrator uses the term, “mad as