- Also Known As:
- Unknown
- Year:
- 2004
- Countries:
- Predominant Genre:
- Mystery
- Director:
- Outstanding Performances:
- None
- Premiss:
- Inside an offbeat boarding school for young girls.
- Themes:
- Alienation
- Christianity
Coming-of-age - Corporate Power
- Courage
- Destiny
- Emotional repression
- Friendship
- Identity
- Loneliness
- Materialism
- Narcissism
- Personal
- Political
- Political Correctness
- Pornography
- Republicanism
- Sadomasochism
- Sex
- Sexism
- Sexual Repression
- Solipsism
- Stereotyping
- White culture
- White supremacy
- Similar to:
- Picnic at Hanging Rock
- Prisoner
- Secret Garden
- Sheep has Five Legs
- Truman Show
- Village
- Review Format:
- DVD
Feet Never Touch the Ground
Based on a White male feminist’s (inevitably-confused) understanding of sexual equality, this characterless, idea-based tale contains the same ambiguity regarding biological essentialism as it does of how White women are actually viewed by White men.
As a grotesque satire on the way in which White girls are actually raised, it only partially succeeds because of its equivocal attitude toward feminism - along with the voyeuristic nature of the enterprise. This scopophilia perfectly captures the sense that White women are to be most concerned with how they appear (to White men) and that their essential purpose is White male sexual pleasure and, in the process, breeding ever more Caucasians - as if there were a shortage of same or, worse, a declining White birthrate.
Despite its visual beauty, this film ultimately falls flat on its face in presenting White feminism as largely pointless in the face of White male lust, along with the latter’s need to achieve secure power over White women in order to experience some sense of sexual stability - no matter how false. This is because White feminists never suggest sleeping with men of different ethnic groups as a solution to White male chauvinism since they secretly delight in the sexism they experience: It gives them a chance to vent their hatred of all men and of one man, in particular - their fathers. The high, inescapable walls, here, are in the director’s paranoiac and schizophrenic mind.
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