The journal for this week for Film Studies is to write about feminism again. But based on a different film. An animation in 2004, The Incredibles from Pixar Animation studios has blended in the concept of feminism in the making of this film, feminism in this film uses the way of the male gaze. The male gaze is to view the world from a masculine point of view, presenting female characters as an object to bring pleasure to the male characters.

The male gaze is presented in three perspectives, first is that of a person behind the camera, the second one was characters within the representation or film itself, the last one was the view as a spectator of the film. The male gaze often brings the audience into the perspective of a heterosexual man, the woman is typically displayed in two types of level, one as an erotic object for both of the characters in the movie and also the audience watching the film.

The first feminist representative is Violet, the teenage girl with the force field power is shy, obedient and lack of self-confidence. Her attitude apparently reflects her power in one way and another, given that it is not well explained to the audience. With the power of invisible or stealth, it makes her shy to the society. Her force field power on the other side explains that she is low on self-esteem. Edna Mode, the fashion designer for superheroes, she is an example of strong women. She has no superpowers, but a strong attitude, she is always very confident at the things she is doing. Edna is a very talented woman, having to design the suits for superheroes with the finest materials possible she's smart on inventing materials that helps superheroes. One of the groups of woman she belongs to is the elitist, the top of the best in this society.



Helen, also know as Elastic girl, she is an example of a good wife, being a mother of three. Just like Violet, her powers reflects her personality very much. Having elasticity makes her a flexible housewife, she do several things and handle her kid's fight. She is also strong and protective, this makes her family oriented. Helen can put her own happiness aside to investigate her husband when her husband acts suspiciously when he came back home. Most of all, she is a dominant and independent woman that knows best at strategizing things for the whole family. Kari, the babysitter for the Incredibles family has played a small part in the movie, but she demonstrated a very fine example of feminist, she is those kinds of woman that thinks she can handle everything but fails at it. She is talkative, which makes her only knows how to talk but doesn't do it. Mirage is the white hair girl that works for Syndrome, she is a kind of femme fatale, using her sexuality as an advantage to reach her goals. For example, she lures all the superheroes into the trap and helped Syndrome to wipe their existence.


At the end of the day, feminism wants the female population to make choices and be confident with it. It has produced strong messages in films that make girls stronger than they used to be, telling them they can be whoever they want as long as they believe in themselves. Overall, the movie brilliantly demonstrates the concept of feminism, and has show the world how woman should be.