Im going to go off of what we talked about in class more so then the handout itself.
The thought about having a higher and a lower in many cultures is normal and common. There is always some one better, higher, in more power than you, and on the other hand there is always someone that can be below you or worse off than you. You can always see it, weather you like to admit it or not, its there. Now going back to the clip we saw in class of the two movies and more so focussing on the scene in Fatal Attraction, when the Wife shot the crazy mistress, and how that shows her monster in her. Now in the culture of the scene taking place the Wife is the typical "happy housewife" a house wife holds a lot of responsibilities for for person they have to keep the family in order and always seem to be well maintained and in doing so keeping her husband happy and satisfied. In the film the typical role for the happy house wife was have a lot of ripples being made. This lead to the Wife doing only what she knows best and that is to keep the family together and happy, despite all other facts, she was trying to put everything back together again and trying to make her happy life come back so things can go back to the way they are meant to be. And that is why her monster has to come out and do what needs to be done, and that is why she shot the crazy mistress.
Heads up this may give away some information about a movie you haven't seen, just warning you all now, sorry!
This in a way brings me back to the movie Revolutionary Road, and how Kat Winslet, was the perfect house wife. did everything she was meant to do. but then she started to go a little crazy her monster inside of her was to much to hold in and it began to come out. In the movie her husband, Leonardo DiCaprio also cheats on her, just as in Fatal Attraction. However the monster in Kat, and that she is stuck in this life of lies that no one is perfect and wants to get out and see the world. she knew that would never happen with the new baby she was pregnant with so she aborted the baby herself, and leading to that she made herself believe that the life she was living was a lie and there was no way out. which eventually lead to her final death.
This shows that Kat is right, the "happy house wife" that in culture is known for, is all lies and no one family or person could ever maintain such perfection. every human being has a monster inside and if you suppress it long enough it will soon break out and in both examples they did. They prove that the innocence is not bliss and that it comes with great heart and strength, and even then so its not always achieved, and culture should not put as much pressure on making people better then others and just focus on the account that we all have problems that need to be tamed and well planed out because if not, you might just end up like Kat Winslet in Revolutionary Road.
I already posted a clip of the movie Revolutionary Road, it shows the background of the movie, and shows how things will and can go wrong. Please go watch it, it helps show what im talking about.
