Thelma and Louise textual analysis

Thelma and Louise

I have analysed the two scenes from the film "Thelma and Louise" where they pass a truck driver who is wanting their attention. In the first scene they overtake the truck as the driver is making sexual gestures towards them and also beeping his horn wanting their attention and more. This connotes just how men feel towards women, seeing them all as objects that can be used at anytime when the male wants it to. We then see nothing special as they overtake and ignore. The important connotations are in the second scene. 

They then see this same truck driver on the highway again and then drag him in by playing along with this, we then see a POV from the truck driver looking down on the women, this relates to women being lower than men is this patriarchal society and shows men looking down on women once again as just objects for their pleasure. They then lead him out onto the deserty wildness in the middle of nowhere. We then see various wide and long shots showing the wide open space that the women and man are in possibly connoting the womens freedom as they are not surrounded by men but rather in the middle of knowhere where stereotypes or sexism does not excist but only in mens mind which we see from the truck driver. Thelma and Louise then go on to question him and aggresively explain that it is not right to treat women this way and as objects to be used for sex. 

Throughout this exchange of words there are various shot reverse shots between Thelma and Louise signifiying their relationship as strong willed and in no need of a man while also showing their power as they outnumber the truck driver. Thelma then pulls out a pistol and shoots the truck causing it to blow up as we then see the truck driver panic and afriad while we see Thelma and Louise take ammusement out of this and are calm which is the opposite to what we usually see in films as we often see the women in perill and scared while the man protects or in some cases causes her to be in fear while in this case we see the man in fear as the women are taking enjoyment out of it switching the stereotypical gender roles around. We also notice in this sequence their costumes, Thelma and Louise are both wearing tight jeans and dirty tank top/t-shirt which would often be associated with men in american films.