Started “The Power” this week and should finish this weekend. It’s based on a novel by Naomi Alderman about the sudden appearance in adolescent girls of the ability to channel electricity from their bodies.
It weaves together the stories of a handful of different girls (and one young man!) from different backgrounds and areas of the world, and the different ways that they experience it as it develops and becomes more public/widespread. Like anyone given a great power of any kind, it is wielded to various degrees of care/abuse.
The literalization of the metaphor of women making change by banding together with their own powers and the suggestion that the ability emerged as a natural form of self-defense after thousands of years of patriarchal oppression can sometimes feel a bit heavy handed, but it’s hard not to feel it deeply and want to cheer them on— even when it means challenging your own reactions to why/how the power may be used in violent and/or revengeful ways.
Started “The Power” this week and should finish this weekend. It’s based on a novel by Naomi Alderman about the sudden appearance in adolescent girls of the ability to channel electricity from their bodies.
It weaves together the stories of a handful of different girls (and one young man!) from different backgrounds and areas of the world, and the different ways that they experience it as it develops and becomes more public/widespread. Like anyone given a great power of any kind, it is wielded to various degrees of care/abuse.
The literalization of the metaphor of women making change by banding together with their own powers and the suggestion that the ability emerged as a natural form of self-defense after thousands of years of patriarchal oppression can sometimes feel a bit heavy handed, but it’s hard not to feel it deeply and want to cheer them on— even when it means challenging your own reactions to why/how the power may be used in violent and/or revengeful ways.
Gonna have to watch Single Drunk Female