Sherry in class a few days ago was talking about the inherent tropes of the plot and material of "My Super Ex-Girlfriend" - a sense that the complete transition between Uma Thurman's "normal self", as this slightly mousy librarian type, into the "superhero", who is confidant, sexually alluring, but also very dangerous. The comedy of the piece itself seems to come from the logical extreme of a familiar fallacy - breaking up with a girl can cause her to go crazy. They added the element of her being a superhero as the gimmick of the movie, but moviegoers are expected to identify with the idea of the crazy ex-girlfriend. Even the preview for the story plays on a false stereotype - the text reads "It's the age old story. Boy meets girl. Boy gets girl. Girl drives boy crazy." That doesn't sound like any age old story from a woman's perceptive. That sounds like an age old story from an essentially misogynistic perspective.
There's also a really interesting scene in which Uma Therman's character (the superhero) takes her male obsession flying with her against his will. Up in the air, she begins to initiate sex with him without really any warning. It's really interesting that one she becomes this powerful woman, her desire is amped up and made strange by the context of his reaction (he feels uncomfortable, he is terrified oif the height, ect.) This idea of the unstoppable female desire in her resonates with our reading early in the semester, the medical texts about how women suffer from uncontrollable desire.
What do you guys think?
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