Bob Spitz: evaluation

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…That would be great. Why is Thelma & Louise an interesting movie? We’re getting into my wife’s profession here. My wife, Becky Aikman, is the real writer in the family. She spent 20 years as a reporter. She is a brilliant writer. She felt that Thelma & Louise was really one of the very first feminist movies. It’s an outlaw movie. There was women who live as men in the movies have always lived as outlaws. Why not? Why shouldn’t they? Why shouldn’t they talk the same way men talk and behave the same way men talk? Plus, they looked out for themselves. When they were abused, they fought back. It’s a controversial movie. People are still wondering, was it Thelma or was it Louise who shot the man? We don’t know. Should they have ended the movie the way they ended the movie by, we assume, committing suicide? It’s an intriguing film. It has a Sopranos ending, the same way the Sopranos ended. Did the movie really end that way? We think it did. Could it be a fantasy? Perhaps. We don’t know. It’s a movie that makes you think, and it’s a movie that has a great political undertone. I think movies need to get that edge again today. I’ve seen that film too many times, but every time I do, I learn something from it. How does it matter being married to another writer?…

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