Freedom in Doing What She Loves: This evidence can be seen when Kitty
wanted to play piano as soon as she arrived in Shanghai. She was in charge of
being beautiful and doing the roles as a housewife, so she doesn‟t have any more
time to do what she loves to do.
Freedom in Breaking Female Stereotypic Roles: Stereotyping is what a lot of
feminists have been dwelling into for almost centuries. It leads to nowhere, even
up until now. As for the film, the female stereotypic roles prevail in society force
Kitty to be sensitive, pretty all the time, well-behaved, put her family above
anything else, and keep good image of her family and herself. This thing can be
seen when Kitty is so afraid with Walter‟s threat about filing a divorce paper for
Kitty with adultery reason. All of the good images that she has been keeping all
this time would waste in vain if that really happen. This is why she chose to
follow her husband.
Those are the evidences found in the film. But it would be a long list if I
analyzed it from the novel. For being a homosexual, Maugham swims into the
deepest feelings of Kitty in contrast to what I have always seen as the emotional
reserve from his male characters. This also can be seen as the product of
Maugham‟s homosexuality living in an era when this thing became a top secret
and had to be kept hidden.
And that‟s it, for a while. To give Maugham a credit for a well-written
story, I give this novel 5 stars, but only 4 stars for the film. The Painted Veil film
has a very distinctive visual look that goes hand-in-hand with the theme and mood
- it's even captured perfectly on the poster, too. It is easily to observe. And that
kind of achievement is exhibited only from passionate independent filmmakers. I
can clearly see the camera work is superb - this is clearly an artful film - but the
director's storytelling and the long, mundane scenes made this a laborious film to
watch.
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