Coming from a Gender & Sexuality Studies background, I found the film for this week, The Riddle of the Sphinx, to be extremely intriguing. I found it to be a great critique of patriarchy and demonstrates the "othering" of women. The scene taking place in the kitchen, where the female protagonist, who you only view from the midsection is making food is especially great in my opinion. The voice over of the repetition of tasks brought the old axiom "A women's work is never done" to my mind as we see this woman preparing a meal, cleaning the dishes, taking care of her child, all while her husbands leans against the counter eating the crusts from the piece of bread that the protagonist has prepared. Another interesting thought that could be extrapolated from this scene is since we do not see the faces of the adults it is almost like we are viewing this scene from the perspective of a child, thus seeing how the dominant discourse of "proper" gender roles can be reproduced through unintentional teaching.

The film brought up some greats points regarding feminitiy and feminism, such as the one shown above, but also others like the woman's "double duty" (being able to work outside the home but still being expected to do every household task as well) and the male gaze in cinema (the acrobatic scene, while kinda trippy simply portrays a women doing acrobatic/vaguely sexual acts alone on the screen). While at first I thought the film was too farfetched for me, in hindsight I see the relevant points it was attempting to bring up.