Miss Representation~ Sarcasm

   

This blog post is about the movie "Miss Representation". As you can see, the title is a play on the word misrepresentation. The whole movie was about the way us girls and women are being represented and treated by society and social media, and how, although it has gotten better for girls and women, it's still looking a bit grim.

  This blog post is also about sarcasm. Sarcasm was the literary device that my partner and I were assigned to look for and take notes on during the video. The definition wasn't too hard, but since the movie was so compelling, and it literally just sucks you in, we only have one example for the use of sarcasm in the video. That example was when a female actress was talking about a show she had been in.  While she was on the show, many of the people on set were harassing her about her weight. Yes, she wasn't super skinny, but she was by no means  overweight. Soon after that, they cancelled the show she was in, and replaced it with Drew Carey (and I quote the actress who's show was replaced by his on this), " Because he's SO fit!"   

  

       What is sarcasm?

Sarcasm is a way of saying something with a bit of an attitude, and not usually a nice attitude either! Quoting the dictionary, sarcasm is "the use of irony to mock or convey contempt".

Sarcasm was used to add a bit more flavour.  It shows that the women and girls in the movie have a bit of attitude. And aren't going to take anymore junk. The sarcasm was used to help develop and portray how the filmmaker really felt about the whole subject.

     "Miss Representation"  was a real eye-opener, and I would encourage you all to watch it, no matter who you are. It is very compelling.

 Thank you all for your time, 

~Sylvie