Is Jennifer's Body a feminist movie ? 🇬🇧

The other night I was watching Jennifer’s body with my friend and we found it quite unsettling. We talked, and we realized that what was bugging us was the huge paradox that resides in the movie around wether it gives a good representation of women, or not. Indeed, we found it quite feminist that for once, the villain was a teenage girl ( normally depicted as pure and innocent), and above all, a teenage girl who eats men. Which could be very feminist, and use the witch trope in a smart way. A trope being a recurrent narrative structure. We also appreciated seeing a strong female friendship on screen. But the character played by Megan Fox was so sexualized that the male gazey aspect of the movie took over the feminist and subversive one.

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