Critical Reflection
How do your products represent social groups or issues? Typically, in thriller movies women always play the helpless, weak, victim. It places women in a role to be saved by the big strong male figure. It has produced a dangerous stereotype in society where women are seen as being dependent on men. For a lot of history, that is how society worked. In the thriller genre specifically, films continue to misrepresent women. If the film industry continues to place harmful stereotypes, we only continue to perpetuate harm onto the future generations of women. That is why films like Maneater are so crucial. We hope that our message ripples into the rest of the industry so that we will see powerful female leads. In our products we reversed the roles and represented gender inequality throughout film, society, and general perception. Both the female and male lead roles are both assassins.This puts them both at an even playing field. Nelly is given a powerful position. A position that normally