I Watch Films: The Wasp Woman

The Wasp Woman

Starlin beauty products have stopped selling so well after Janice Starlin, the founder, stopped appearing in the adverts (due to growing older). Enter Dr Zinthrop, whose work with Royal Wasp Jelly has revealed miraculous rejuvenating powers. Although some of her staff (there are three women at the management meetings, she refers to them collectively as “gentlemen”) doubt his work she volunteers as a human subject, losing an apparent twenty years.

There are side effects.

There’s a couple of interesting points, two men in management think that Starlin is being conned and plot against her, turning her secretary; there’s some byplay in the outer office (receptionist, secretary and receptionist's friend from another department); and the security guard, who has a mechanical thing he has to turn the keys at various parts of the building to prove he’s done his rounds.

Watch This: A cool period piece about a woman navigating a sexist world, by turning into a wasp
Don’t Watch This: Turning the woman into a wasp looks bad, also her hubris leads to a bad end.