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A review by rosof5
Dirty week-end by Helen Zahavi
dark
slow-paced
2.0
This book looks like a graphic novel where the cover is very enticing, but when you open it up it's some black and white old drawings.
It feels trash like an old noir movie mixed with some gray dystopia with a silent manic pixie dream girl as the protagonist. and it made me question the gender of the author many times, but I think it was because of the accuracy of the sexism mixed with this very plain simple idea of female rage, that only works in fiction. Bella is so plain, we can feel her rage but we never get to know her, nothing about her is interesting, and the story is more to show the gore side of sexism.
It makes me question, how Female rage has risen as a media trend in movies and books, and that they should be seen only as symptomatic fiction, and never as a manifesto since it doesn't propose anything reliable or sustainable.
The fact that Bella looks like a side character of her own life (meaning we don't know anything about her, and everything happens to her, instead of her creating things) shows how much it's not about character development, and only for the plot, but since I'm not into this types of thrillers. It's not even a thriller, because we know from the beginning where the story is heading.
I feel like it was a huge mistake to always speak about Bella from a third-person perspective because maybe that's what made her look distant and dull. When there were reflections of gender it never went deep enough because of the third-person perspective, it was always at a surface level even when the violence got quite gore.
I feel like it's just a sadistic reverse version of gender violence.
I wonder what a movie adaptation of this movie would look like, I imagine a gray dystopia noir mixed with I Spit on Your Grave, but I would really hope the project would look more like Promising Young Woman.
I realized close to the end, that this book is not about the main character at all: it's about the excuses men who commit gender violence tell themselves to justify their violence.
It feels trash like an old noir movie mixed with some gray dystopia with a silent manic pixie dream girl as the protagonist. and it made me question the gender of the author many times, but I think it was because of the accuracy of the sexism mixed with this very plain simple idea of female rage, that only works in fiction. Bella is so plain, we can feel her rage but we never get to know her, nothing about her is interesting, and the story is more to show the gore side of sexism.
It makes me question, how Female rage has risen as a media trend in movies and books, and that they should be seen only as symptomatic fiction, and never as a manifesto since it doesn't propose anything reliable or sustainable.
The fact that Bella looks like a side character of her own life (meaning we don't know anything about her, and everything happens to her, instead of her creating things) shows how much it's not about character development, and only for the plot, but since I'm not into this types of thrillers. It's not even a thriller, because we know from the beginning where the story is heading.
I feel like it was a huge mistake to always speak about Bella from a third-person perspective because maybe that's what made her look distant and dull. When there were reflections of gender it never went deep enough because of the third-person perspective, it was always at a surface level even when the violence got quite gore.
I feel like it's just a sadistic reverse version of gender violence.
I wonder what a movie adaptation of this movie would look like, I imagine a gray dystopia noir mixed with I Spit on Your Grave, but I would really hope the project would look more like Promising Young Woman.
I realized close to the end, that this book is not about the main character at all: it's about the excuses men who commit gender violence tell themselves to justify their violence.