The First Wives Club Analysis
The First Wives Club Analysis
When I was in the process of looking for a movie to watch for this essay, my initial thinking was to find a movie about male chauvinists, dominant male figures, etc. then it dawned on me; find a movie that features empowered women and their points of view. The movie I chose was The First Wives Club written by Olivia Goldsmith and directed by Hugh Wilson (Police Academy, Guarding Tess).
The film is a comedy about three women who seek justice after their husbands divorced them for younger women after the men became successful. The three women feel used because they stuck by their men through thick and thin, good times and bad, just to be kicked to the curb after all they had sacrificed for their husbands. They set out for not revenge but justice.
The first dramatic scene, that sets the tone for the movie, shows Cynthia (Stockard Channing) committing suicide by jumping off a building because her husband had just married his much younger lover. At......
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