The Death of Doctor Island Movie

Jeff Wilson · 17 Oct 2006, 16:02 · from 2006-October.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 11:02:44 -0500
Subject: (urth) The Death of Doctor Island Movie
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Mo Holkar / UKG wrote:
> At 03:52 17/10/2006, Jeff Wilson wrote:
>> Mez Smith was an equal member of The Committee, and Quilla is both a 
>> willing exploiter of her sex and the rescuer of the nominal hero. 
>> They also have the essential conversation about a non-men subject 
>> required for a sufficiently feminist film.
> 
> 
> Mm, although I suspect that's in the category of "Last movie I went 
> to see was Alien... the two women in it talk to each other about the monster."

That counts; what they have to say can be considered relevant without 
the involvement of a man to make it so.

-- 
Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
< http://www.io.com/~jwilson >

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