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Girl & A Gun
(2013/First Run Features DVD)
Picture:
C Sound: C Extras: C Documentary: C+
Girls
with guns, a hot yet serious topic. The rage of females with guns
has been portrayed from hot female superstar action movies to radical
feminists with 'girl power'. Hollywood gives us femme fatales, but
reality moms, aunts, girls arming themselves is not because they want
to look hot or cool, but for self protection. While guns is
identified and symbolic for males and consider to be 'boy toys', the
idea of females with guns in reality is still sometimes questioned or
even disapproved,
but leave behind all stereotypes, guns are real, very dangerous and
should be respected... regardless of gender.
Cathryne
Czubeck's A
Girl & A Gun
(2013) gives us a hard look at women how arm themselves with a
leisurely sense that the media, like that noted above, usually does
not. The first thing when we think of girls with guns is either a
Lara Croft or some movie or video game with a hot female with smoking
guns, but this film explores more than that, the real life woman and
why they want guns. Most of women with guns are the result of some
violence related history, either to themselves or their family, after
any such incident the for protecting one's self is natural and buying
a gun is considered second nature. While the United States
Constitution has an Amendment for our rights to bear arms and gun
companies are open find a huge new market of buyers, this film shows
some of the reasons why females can and should buy guns, and how they
feel about it... and they feel good.
Girls
with guns, while there are all sorts of jokes and symbolic innuendos
behind it, the reality is guns are dangerous, history has shown how
women can hand firearms, from Annie Oakley to Bonnie and Clyde to the
modern woman and females in the military. Society has shape the
influence in should females have guns, but it the end we know guns
aren't like the movies. They are dangerous, powerful and require
responsibility, so in the end I think it comes down to it is better
to have one and not need it, than need it and not have one.
The
picture and lossy Dolby Digital 2.0 sound (barely stereo) are rough
throughout and this can be trying to watch at times, but editing is
good. Extras include extended & deleted scenes and music video.
-
Ricky Chiang
