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A 4 page paper which
examines the male characters in the films “Mystic River” and “Monster’s Ball” as it
relates to feminist theories and patriarchal ideas. The work discussed in this examination
is “Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics” by Bell Hooks. No additional sources
cited.
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4 pages (~225 words per page)
File: JR7_RAmystic.rtf
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dysfunctional as they try to sort out their emotions, their lives, and their society. In the film "Mystic River" there is the character of Jimmy and in "Monsters Ball" there
is Lee. These are two men who are faced with very devastating and life altering realities, realities that force these men to try to change themselves somehow, in order to
meet the challenges of their lives. They are victims, for the most part, of the patriarchal society in which they have been raised and they are characters that are trying
to somehow adjust to new realities that do not necessarily fit in that patriarchal role. The following paper examines these two characters as they present us with different perspectives of
the patriarchal power and society. The work used in this discussion, aside from the opinions and perspectives of this writer, is "Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics" by Bell Hooks.
Jimmy In the story of Jimmy we have a man who has lost his daughter. He is a very angry and bitter man. He is a man, a typically
masculine man, in that he seeks retribution for the death of his daughter. He cannot deal with her death and certainly can not see a way to just accept it,
mourn, and move on. He is a man raised by a patriarchal society and as such it is his duty, as he sees it, to do something. In this we
clearly see a reflection of the saying that "women cry tears, men cry bullets." Bullets represents anger and a sense of violence aimed at fixing things and in Jimmys case
this is clearly the situation. In his case we also see elements of how poverty and ethnic identity, as they relate to this working class white man, have
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