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The Babysitter (McG 2017)
While entertaining and with solid acting performances especially from Samara Weaving, McG’s Babysitter is a bizarrely lecherous film where the camera is wielded like the fantasies of a man’s imagination of a pre-adolescent boy. A film that, in our opinion has aged like milk, yet spawned a sequel after apparently a slow burn cult following established on streaming. If you have any doubt of just how inappropriate thiis is to watch, imagine the gender’s reversed. It also pushes that age old tripe of hegemonic masculinity being an aspiration.
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SPOILERS IN THIS EPISODE
Opening scene Scream VI (Bettinelli-Olpin and Gillett 2023)
TOPIC INDEX – The Babysitter (McG 2017) (times are approximate)
0:30 – Introductions
3:00 – Film discussion begins
3:30 – male gaze and scopophilia
6:00 – discomfort
17:00 – Charlie’s Angels (McG 2000)
22:00 – Film intent and Samara Weaving is actually talented
28:00 – hegemonic masculinity character arc
38:10 – grading the film using the Collective Nightmares Evolving Rubric of Social Responsibility
52:00 – outro
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Keywords
teenagers, scopophilia, male gaze, sexualization, adolescence, divorce, hegemonic masculinity, nuclear family, family imaginary, babysitter,