Monday, 5 January 2009

Historical Text (Independent Study)

Three Men & A Baby (1987)
Director: Leonard Niomy
Plot: Three bachelors find themselves forced to take care of a baby left by one of the guy's girlfriends

Quote: They changed her diapers. She changed their lives



This film focuses on three men who live together as flat mates. They are all working men are are represented as typical men towards women.
for example, a the beggining of the film, one of the men is dating a women, but another women is iterested in him and states that he is single.
Although these men ay have been represented as typical men at the beggining of the film, these men,s ideologies and values changes as another females affects their lives. Not a seductive women, but a little baby girl.
At first the men don't want anything to do withthe baby and don't know anything.
For Example
'I can draw a design structure, so i should be able to change a baby's diaper'.
This quote clearly shows that men think they can do anything by realting to their male role pf working. But its not that simple.
Throughout the film each male has a responsibility and trys to learn as the film progresses.
One issue through the film where the drug dealers trsh the house, is that they care about if the baby is hurt. this shows a sign of men's emotions and love for the baby.
This can link to my study as the new man is present through the nuturing and caring of the baby.

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