“Dawn” directed by Rose McGowan is a short film about a quiet adolescent in the early 1960s named Dawn who yearns for someone to relieve her from her sheltered life. She then meets this boy working at the local gas station with whom she innocently flirted with thinking the boy is the answer to her sheltered and restricted life. The story took a downturn as she gets killed in the end with inability to protect herself due to how she was brought up. “American Male” is a short film directed by Michael Rohrbaugh for MTV’s Look Different competition focusing on the theme gender stereotypes. The film started with a young man doing all activities considered masculine while a narrative voice in the background enumerates a list of things and activities that may only be done by men and women respectively. In order to not be considered gay the main character desperately tries to live up to the type of masculine male society dictates but in the process he became disillusioned with his own identity and losses himself in the process.
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The gender constraints society places upon us seems more like a shackle than an attempt to give people the freedom to stay true to themselves. It created a wall where people who does not conform to the gender norms will be punished and discriminated. This created so much pressure on the individual to fit in the standards that if you are a male you must conform to the masculine role and take up jobs requiring stregth and high intelligence such related to law, military and politics while if you are a female you must conform to the feminine role taking care-related occupations such as healthcare, childcare, and social work. It’s like your worthiness only depends upon your ability to fulfill social expectation rather than personal
Both film focuses on the theme of …show more content…
The gender constraints society places upon us seems more like a shackle than an attempt to give people the freedom to stay true to themselves. It created a wall where people who does not conform to the gender norms will be punished and discriminated. This created so much pressure on the individual to fit in the standards that if you are a male you must conform to the masculine role and take up jobs requiring stregth and high intelligence such related to law, military and politics while if you are a female you must conform to the feminine role taking care-related occupations such as healthcare, childcare, and social work. It’s like your worthiness only depends upon your ability to fulfill social expectation rather than personal