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Amy Schumer: Feminism And Social Injustice

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Amy Schumer is a female stand-comedian praised by many for talking a lot about feminism and social injustices in her acts. Throughout college, Schumer studied feminist film theory, and even wrote her college thesis on male gaze. In 2015 she released a much anticipated movie that she had written and starred in. Trainwreck was made with the intention of being a feminist triumph. Amy, played by Amy herself, lived a life of promiscuity with little commitment. She’s sexually liberated, smart, fresh, and a man does not make her life whole. “I have a great job and my apartment is sick,” she says in voiceover while a montage of her life plays in the background. However, as the story progresses we learn that in actuality, her life represents a train …show more content…

Kim never gets mad at Amy until their father’s funeral where she finally snaps. “Amy, I am not a crazy person because I got married and got pregnant with a child. That’s what people do!” When Amy finally apologizes, she says, “I want you to know that I act like everything you do in your life i so wrong and stupid but it’s just because I don’t think I can have that… I’m not ok.” During this scene Amy starts evolving into the person she sees in the mirror, Kim. Amy realizes that she can have everything that Kim has and she she changes her life around. One of Amy’s main goals when making Trainwreck was making sure that the women were not sexualized. Instead, the men in Trainwreck are treated like the female characters in every other movie. One of the first scenes shows Amy hooking up with a random guy from that night. When he takes his clothes off she just stares at him and makes remarks about his body. Later on she describes her “boyfriend” at the time, WWE star John Cena, as “an ice sculpture.” In one scene, the camera lingers on his shirtless torso, showing his “to-be-looked-at-ness” (719). Never in this scene does it show Amy shirtless; in fact, she wears clothes during sex while John remains fully naked throughout the whole

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