Glenda – Get Carter

Glenda – Get Carter

Car Scene

Throughout this scene Glenda is seen through Carter’s eyes and his P.O.V and how he sees her whilst she is driving. The gear changes and the close – ups of her body show that he is seeing her as a sexual object and not a real woman. He is only seeing her for sexual pleasure and she is only there for his pleasure and the audience’s pleasure. There are no shots of Carters’ body but there are many different shots of her body. This is for the pleasure of the audience and is part of the make gaze because the film was made by men and the pleasure is for men and there is no pleasure for the women watching the film. When the key is turned to turn of the car we see Glenda flop lifeless on the bed where as Carter is sitting up looking very pleased with himself. Glenda is a perfect example of 1970s women because she is seen by Carter to be an object rather than a person. This is the same as real life and what was happening to women and how they where treated. She lets Carter treat her this way and doesn’t question it just like 1970s women because they saw men as superior. The scene in the car where Glenda is driving the car and Carter keeps looking at her in a sexual way and imagining her in bed which then cuts to her in bed with him didn’t need to be in the film because it does provide us to see her death in the film but it is irrelevant to have it happen in the car. There could have been other ways for her to get killed because of Jack but they have included this scene because of the male gaze and it draws in a male audience because they get to see naked women in the cinema. The male gaze is Laura Mulvey’s theory, which states that women are only in films for men to gaze at in a sexual way. In modern films women can just be looked at but in many old films they where something to gaze at because they where only included to open the film up to a wider male audience. This theory is still relevant today but not as much as in the 1970s.

Kinnear’s House

In Kinnear’s house we see how he treats Glenda because he tells her off for bringing the wrong glasses in for Jack. In modern day this wouldn’t happen because it is seen as wrong but in the 1970s this was just accepted because it was the normal thing that happened. When Glenda is talking to Jack she is providing important information for the film because it sets up the scene for later but we can hear Kinnear in the background louder than Glenda and all he is talking about is his bet and it is not important. This shows how much power men had in the 1970s and how they could just over look women and not care what they have to say. When she asks Carter to put her glass on the table it is the only time in the film that a man does something for a woman. This shows how they are treated like slaves and they where second-class citizens in society but because she gets Carter to put her glass down we see that Carter may want something from her. We find out that what he wants from her is the information on the Fletcher brothers and then sex later on so he will do anything to get them both from her. We see from this that women where not liberated in any way because whenever the y got a man to do something for them they would always have to give them something in return. We also see how Carter is using her to get the information and sex again.