Point Break as Male Fantasy Film
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Although directed by a female, Kathryn Bigelow, the film ôPoint Breakö is pure male fantasy that provides male viewers with a concept of masculinity that is frozen in adolescence. It is unlikely female viewers would wish to forge a serious relationship with protagonist Johnny Utah, a former Rose Bowl star who now works for the FBI and needs to prove himself. For the film projects a juvenile version of manhood, in which both Utah and Bodhi, the villain, appear trapped in a never-never land-like existence of fund and games that never ends.In ôPoint Break,ö Utah is on a case of a string of bank robberies carried out by four surfers who disguise themselves with masks of U.S. presidents. Utah must go undercover as a surfer to help nab the ring of bank robbers whose crimes subsidize their lives devoted to following the surf. The film is appealing to males because it presents a free-falling, surfing, bank-robbing reality, where everything is about catching the wave and looking for an endless ride. Instead of being mature males women could relate to, both Bodhi and Utah
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