Halloween and gender…

I didn’t get to finish the whole movie, because I was sick on Monday. So, here is what I can say from just getting to see it on Friday. First off, I’m not the biggest “scary” movie fan, and Halloween seems to me like your typical scary movie. This movie includes 2 of the most typical horror movie things: a scary macho male and helpless women.  At first, the little michael kills his older sister, who just happens to be naked( another typical thing in horror movies…) Later on, Michael grows up, escapes the mental hospital and goes after some more victims who, happen to be women. To the ordinary eye, this is just your usual horror flick. But, if you go deeper, you could say that the movie is showing something by the fact that the male is attacking the female. The movie may be trying to show that men are better, or higher in power than women are. I do not know the director’s or the writer’s intent on the way the filmed the movie and the fact that the villain is a male and the victims women. It may or may not be to subliminaly show that men are the higher species…

If we say that the writers did this, trying to make us think that men are better than women, makes me sick…. Personally, as a man, if another man thinks of himself as better than a women it makes me sad. It makes me sad to see any person think that they are better than the person next to them. That is wrong. All of us are different. It isn’t our position in life to judge someone else. No one is better than anyone else. We all have something great and special to give to this world that we live in. It may not be as estravagant as someone else, but that doesn’t mean that they are better than you.

I really hope the writers and directors just made this movie for the sake of making a scary movie, and not indenting to make men seem more powerful than women. That just makes me like the movie a lot less…

I just hope we all learn and believe that not one person is better than any other person.

 -Eric F.