I Watch Films: Female Perversions
Female Perversions “For a woman ... to explore and express the fullness of her sexuality, her ambitions, her emotional and intellectual capacities, her social duties, her tender virtues, would entail who knows what risks and who knows what truly revolutionary alteration to the social conditions that demean and constrain her. Or she may go on trying to fit herself into the order of the world and thereby consign herself forever to the bondage of some stereotype of normal femininity - a perversion, if you will.” Eve is a hotshot lawyer, but is also desperately insecure. This despite her having hot sex with her hotshot geologist boyfriend and being tipped to be appointed a judge by the governor. She’s preparing for this, but disconcerted by her boss interviewing a replacement for her, another version of herself. She also begins an affair with a female psychiatrist who has taken an office down the hall. She’s pulled out of her home in Los Angeles when her sister Maddie, prepar...
