Good Girls Look the Other Way

Abstract

Abstract A page in the book Her Tongue On My Theory has a single photo graphic image of a woman’s closed painted lips. Next to it the caption raises the question: ‘Stripped of history?’ Desire has the power to do just that, to make us forget who we are. It both disrupts and deconstructs. It dismembers and disembodies. The power of desire to seduce, to lead us in dangerous directions is explored in Spike Lee’s moving film Girl 6. Offering audiences intense close-up shots of lips closed, moving, talking-the passion of this film is there in the mouth, the voice. Contrary to what most viewers imagine before they see Girl 6 this is not a film that exploits the objectification of women. This is a film that explores the eroticization of stardom, of attention.

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