Movie Analysis Essay on And So God Created a Woman

Introduction

The film named and so God Created a Woman is a project released in the year 1956 and was famous in France and America. The film directed by Rodger Vandim won recognition as a leader of the new wave movement, which also made it commercially successful. This paper illustrates themes that are common to the New wave cinema of the 1960s. It makes references to the Schwartz readings to draw historical contexts and narratives as highlighted by Swartz

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Overview of the Plot

Schwartz being a famous film critic defines the film as a piece created to catch the eyes of viewers for its sexual content. He describes Bardot as a sex object in the movie and states that it was made on a sexist eye. The film was Bardot's first film since she started her career but, it is the film that got her to get known in the world of films and launched her into the public spotlight. The fame made her own "sex kitten" character, thus imposing her personal overnight feeling. According to Schwartz, the film shows a lack of conservation values or its support, and this is seen when Brigitte Bardon gets courageous enough to stay naked and walk half-naked and kicks off her shoes and even walking barefoot. Brigitte Bardon has a very high level of sexuality or sexual energy up to a level that she also does not get ashamed to behave like a "porn star" since she ignores even the older generations. The men in this film do not have any control over themselves since every time Bardon is luring the men with her intentional motives, and they don't seem to have a conscious that fetters them from falling for whatever or everything that she is doing.

Brigitte Bardon shows that she does not even respect her elders. This is because even when she is warned to stop with the immoral behaviors, she ignores it and continues. Women show us that they do not have control over their level of sexual energy, and they make the men fall just like "Eve did with Adam."

Themes Relevant to the New Wave Films

They have more than one man whom they are dating, and they keep switching them from time to time. According to the discussion, Brigitte Bardon is an image of female sexuality and shows not even a little kind of effort to fetter her natural sensuality. She goes on and lies half-naked in her yard and makes it a habit to kick off her shoes and stalk about barefoot and does not care about the opinion or the perception of the others, and she even looks like if she assumes their presence. Most of the people in this film lack a lot of social morals. They portray pornography attributes in the movie. Brigitte Bardon makes brothers bring enmity between them and make them have to fight for her. She makes men do a lot of stupid things, which bring unnecessary misunderstandings. When Michel proposes to Brigitte Bardon, she accepts to be married by him while it is evident to her that she does love him but entirely in love with the eldest of their brothers who is Antoine. She keeps on playing with their feelings, neither accepting to admit what she feels for them all nor choosing the right one of them. She wastes everyone's time with explicitly unnecessary fantasies. She keeps them all living in a world of fantasy.

The themes discussed by Schwartz are the themes of sexuality and racial politics. The new wave films discuss more sexuality, a subject that had started gaining popularity in the sixties. Juliette dances to African music, signifying her descent and nice into evil, and the film says that Michel needs to learn to have "control" over his wayward lover. The first part of the film made some efforts to make Juliet as the sympathetic character, she loves animals and music, and she won't deal with any person who dislikes her, but in the end, she is demonizing as a woman who will always drive men to doom.

The theme of social virtues and family relations is discussed. Juliet is charismatic and has one horrifying scene where she gets to defy her husband's family, although the other people acting don't do so much with the roles they have. The lovely cinematography gets hold of St-Tropez before it was to become a well fashionable resort, and the oh-so-'50s jazz music is fun. More so, in spite of predictability of the plot, it is fun to spend time watching melodrama and to find the taste of the sixties approach to modernism.

Conclusion

In conclusion, Schwartz asserts that nothing more optimistic to say about this film. Technically no one may have played a role in the film of Juliet better than Bardon did. By putting on her stretching, blond hair loose, Bardon portrays sexual availability. Paradise on this earth is just but around the corner, according to what she says. And today Brigitte's message sounds as fresh, optimistic and promising just like in 1956

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