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[jay-wasstuff]

[anyataylorjoys]

101 DALMATIANS (1996) dir. Stephen Herek

[femaledaily]

WAKE UP DEAD MAN 2025, dir. Rian Johnson

[phantom-threaded]

Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery

2025, dir. Rian Johnson

[caluanthes]

101 DALMATIANS (1996), dir Stephen Herek

[brat-pack-it-up-boys]

Trying to explain any season of Dungeons and daddies to someone

[azertyrobaz]

Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery

[devilishcupid]

seeing that the central characters for the previous knives out movies are women of color, and both installments make a point of emphasizing marta and helen using their womanhood to outsmart and beat white men and the oppressive systems that prop them up, it suprised me a little that wake up dead man's lead was a white man and not a woman like the previous films.

but even with the lack of a female lead, wake up dead man is still a very female-centric movie that uses womanhood and the female experience to tell its story. wake up dead man is a critique of religion and religious institutions, and the centuries-long misogyny that have plagued these institutions and have gone unchecked.

grace is a representation of how women are so-easily twisted to become villains through men's perspectives. we see the portrayal of grace change depending on who is telling the story. through the eyes of men, she's a demonic, vengeful, and greedy "wench." through the eyes of women, she is a young girl who was not ready to be a mother and was in search of her ticket out of the misery she lived.

martha, on the other hand, is the representation of women who have been pitted against other women in order to isolate them and make them dependent on men. when she was little, martha was told that grace was sinful, but by the end, she admitted that grace was only desperate for a new life for herself, and martha eventually let go of the hatred she had for her.