Film Analysis:Dream Worlds III

In today’s society, the fast pace of pop culture is steadily increasing. The objectification of women in pop culture is directly proportional to such a trend. Thus women have lost all sense of their identity and have simply become shadows of our society. The Dream Worlds Documentary is a perfect example of this. This movie was a great analysis and inside look at how women in our society are objectified into subjects whose sole purpose is for males to look at them.
The main idea behind this documentary was to investigate the way pop culture images such as music videos, advertisements and commercials, affect youth’s concepts of their self and their sexuality. It is through this point that I believe this film relates to our class readings the best out of the other two films we watched this semester. This is because the readings that we have done thus far discuss issues surrounding femininity. The way that women are used in advertisements and music videos as objects of pleasure, show just how narrow the definition of being a woman in today’s society has become. Both our readings and the documentary portray this message. Another issue that connects this film to our readings is that women are seen as nymphomaniacs and desire sex at all times. Pop culture has given us this false sense of femininity, thus men think that all women are out just to have sex with them. Dream Worlds III is a great documentary that gives the audience a whole new perspective on the way women are used in today’s culture.
Talking about this film from the standpoint of artistic sense and production, I thought the documentary portrayed the message very clearly. It personally opened my eyes and gave me a new perspective on how culture has broken down women in to objects rather than subjects. The part that did it the most was the section on “Constructing Femininity”. During this section of the documentary, it discussed how in music videos the number of women always outnumbers the men; they are draped over them wearing minimal clothing. The object of this is to show that the male is in power. These images are showing society’s youth that it is ok to treat women in such a manner and that male dominance is acceptable. It is obvious from the film that their perspective on this issue is to try and get gain awareness about the objectification of women and to try and stop it. Through the images that they showed and the dialect about each topic, it is clear to see that they feel very strongly about this issue and wish to create a whole new way of looking at women in pop culture.