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Poem: Strong Female Lead

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Simon Sweetman
Nov 14, 2019
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Instead of counting the number of lines that the female characters did not have in the latest Martin Scorsese movie, a better move might be to watch Nicole Kidman in the movie Destroyer, or Natalie Portman in Vox Lux, or Maggie Gyllenhaal in…well… anything, but most recently The Kindergarten Teacher.

There are many other examples of course. And there’ll …

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