re: Spring: Before Sunrise The Sci-Fi\Horror Movie

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yeah but i can just as easily write this up as "independent woman who has made it on her own for 2,000 years gives up everything for a man who gives up nothing", thus showing the inequality of the sexes and the extra demands on women in our patriarchal society

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Also, I think it is likely that if the narrative was the opposite, say a man gives up everything for a woman who gives up little, then the same sort of position of the woman who wrote the review would claim that is indicative of a society who thinks that men are valued more than woman, and woman do not have as much to offer a man in a relationship. I think it is funny how her critique of this inverse narrative assumes the opposite that woman are inherently more valuable than men.

The fact is that this narrative in particular regardless of the roles of the woman and man relies on one party to give up more than the other. That 1 party gives up less creates the conflict that it is unknown whether love is there or that it exists at all. If both give up equally a lot then there isn't this same internal conflict of doubt and fear of not knowing the mind of another, although there can be external conflict. If both parties don't give up anything at all then there is no conflict and no story.