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Content warning: This article contains discussion of sexual violence.The politics of Wes Craven’s political thriller Red Eye don’t exactly jump off the screen. Really, they seem to have minimal effect on the film at all. In a shrewd bit of casting, Craven employed Rachel McAdams — still toweling off from her torrential glow-up as Allie Hamilton in The Notebook — to play Lisa Reisert, a calloused hotel administrator caught in Cillian Murphy’s shady schemes.
American Politics in Hollywood Film, once distinguished between “movies that offer politics with a capital rather than a small ‘p’.” If the “capital-P” political thriller is to maintain a distinct shape, the genre has to embody a specific political style, a certain type of violent exchange between protagonist and antagonist that affects politicians, or at least a particular populace.
'Red Eye' Doesn't Directly Reference 9/11 — But It Doesn't Have To Red Eye’s political backdrop functions not only as a plot device but as an aura. True events that have already bled into the cultural consciousness become baggage that audiences project to the screen — a collective attitude that renders viewers either more or less likely to respond to the events of a film.
'Red Eye’s Actual Politics Are Deeply Personal Craven’s film is way more interested in gender politics than it is in partisan bickering or international espionage. Rippner’s misogyny seeps out of him like the grease flattening his floppy middle parting. When Lisa reacts to his threats with fear and tears — as just about any reasonable human would — he goads her, chiding her to resist her female, emotional instincts, and reason with cold, hard, male rationality.
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