Fuzzy Wuzzy

I was impressed with a number of things Babyface had to offer. First, it empowers women. And as cliché as that sounds, I do not know how else to say it. It shows that women have power men do not. Especially in the time the film was made. Women were best seen as house wives, and care takers, there to take care of men, and somewhat frowned upon for wanting to pursue a career. Babyface breaks all norms. She is sarcastic, sassy, strong minded, and confident. She can also hold her drink, and is quite promiscuous. The American dream radiates from her core, to make life better for herself by any means necessary. An ideal that follows along with every gangster film we have seen. Her weapons of choice are her lady gifts: beauty, confidence, and the willingness to put-out. You could say she follows a code, a code laid out by Nietzsche. Nietzsche was a philosopher from the late eighteen hundreds. His work inspired two brothers to create The Matrix. Nietzsche wrote that “the strongest and highest Will to Life does not find expression in a miserable struggle for existence, but in a Will to War. A Will to Power, a Will to Overpower! (Fieser 364) ” Babyface takes this to heart, she lives life devoid of emotion, relying on her ability to overpower any man by her beauty and sheer will to succeed. I noticed that she only accomplishes the things she does because she wants to. She only does it because she wills herself to do it; to manipulate and use men to better her lifestyle. And she never sways from this idea. She does everything she does because she wants to, because she wants to do it that way. And throughout the movie she shows evidence of a mental wall. This wall is shown by her apparent inability to care, or be affect by the murder and suicide of two men she bamboozled. Only at the end of the movie does she decide to love. And she is only able to do this because she wills herself. It is important to note what kind of man does this for her. From the start, I thought to myself “Who will tickle her fancy?” And in the end I was given an answer. It was a man who accepted her as she was and knew without being told the number of unladylike things she has done. He was a man who saw through her act, and still loved her. Once she realized this she was able to love him, to release that wall that got her where she was. She also proved her love when she found him after a batched suicide attempt. An ambulance comes for him and she sits in the back with her man, not caring about the half a million that spilled all over the floor. But I have to say I wish they would have gone with a stronger end. I mean yah she doesn’t care that the diamonds and money spilled everywhere, but that is all it did. She didn’t give it away, she didn’t lose it and not care, she only spilled the contents, and remarks, “It doesn’t matter now”. She still has half a million, but that might go to the bank to help out her man. Who knows.