MIM Movie Review

This is an archive of the former website of the Maoist Internationalist Movement, which was run by the now defunct Maoist Internationalist Party - Amerika. The MIM now consists of many independent cells, many of which have their own indendendent organs both online and off. MIM(Prisons) serves these documents as a service to and reference for the anti-imperialist movement worldwide.

   Mermaids (1991)

   Set in the groovy 60s, back when sex liberated women (Cher) and
   gave them personal power. Yeah right. Contrast between the Church
   in its purity and unreal beauty and the reality of the oppression it
   perpetuates. Did the directors intend to portray such misogyny or does
   it take a communist to decipher that through what was supposed to be
   Winona Ryder being cute? Mermaids ultimately deals with religion as
   just another way for a teenager to rebel against her mother. Women
   who are single and sexually active are feminists by definition, in
   control. The fantasy is that these women find wonderful sensitive men
   who want to make monogamous commitments but turn them down to continue
   having sex on their terms. We are supposed to feel sorry for these
   women, incapable of loving like "normal" folks, and thus what was
   phony feminism in the first place is shot down in the last few scenes.