Noah Berlatsky: Guillermo del Toro’s movie, starring Bradley Cooper and Cate Blanchett, is unusually clear about how misogyny is as much about male psychodrama as it is about women. - NBCNewsTHINK
Dec. 17, 2021, 9:48 PM UTCGuillermo del Toro’s “Nightmare Alley” is a classic noir. There’s a morally ambiguous male protagonist with a good woman he should choose — and a seductive evil one he shouldn’t. There’s also a core of misogyny, though the film is unusually clear about how that misogyny is as much about male psychodrama and fear of unmanliness as it is about actual women.
Based on William Lindsay Gresham’s 1946 novel, the film starts with handsome drifter Stan Carlisle joining a carnival as a laborer. He quickly becomes attached to a mentalist act and begins to learn the tricks of “mind-reading.” Soon he convinces good-hearted Molly to abandon her electrocution act and become his assistant in a two-person show. They’re successful until Stan becomes entangled with the mysterious psychologist Dr. Lilith Ritter .
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