Well worth highlighting this piece from one of my favorite web-writers, Alison Willmore, who points out something, apropos of Inception and Shutter Island this year, regarding the romantic (and tormenting) idealization of women as a plot hook. So that the tormented male lead can emote and strain towards some future enlightenment (or fall into the void), there must be a woman bathed in honey-coloured light demurely glancing towards the camera in soft-focus.
Read the entire piece here with may very good examples of this.
