In this week film review, I will discuss Pisau Cukur using the theory of male gaze. The idea of male gaze was introduced by Laura Mulvey in the article of Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema. during 1975. The male gaze empowers man and objectified women as nothing more than a sexual pleasure. Women are portrayed in the stereotypical image, that female should be weak, ignorance and dependent on men. In male gaze, the audience will look at the female characters in heterosexual man's view, when a female character was introduced, the camera generically capturing a female character by focused on her breast, curves and back, telling audience she is sexy before they even know their name.
"Pisau Cukur", also meaning gold digger in Bahasa Melayu. Intan(Nur Fazura Sharifuddin) had been ambitious to marry a rich man since she was young. Her lover in the beginning of the movie, Datuk Salleh who is rich and married, promised her a vacation on a cruise but unable to make it because his wife is in the hospital. Intan decided to go on the cruise with her roommate Bella(Maya Karin), who is also a Pisau Cukur.
Intan was trying to introduce Bella to the rich man on the cruise, and they end up traveling together with the family of Datuk and Bella trying to grab Datuk's attention so she gets the chance to become his fourth wife. They soon found out that Datuk had been murdered on the cruise. Intan and Ari(Aaron Aziz), a detective is trying to investigate who is the murderer of Datuk. Intan is also trying to proof she is more than a pretty face and she can be smart too.
While the investigation going on, Bella is attracted to another rich, handsome guy Datuk Hashim(Eizlan Yusof). She started to use all her charm to attract Datuk Hashim in order to become his lover, and her admirer Faqir (Redza Minhat) offered his help to Bella.
Intan was trying to introduce Bella to the rich man on the cruise, and they end up traveling together with the family of Datuk and Bella trying to grab Datuk's attention so she gets the chance to become his fourth wife. They soon found out that Datuk had been murdered on the cruise. Intan and Ari(Aaron Aziz), a detective is trying to investigate who is the murderer of Datuk. Intan is also trying to proof she is more than a pretty face and she can be smart too.
While the investigation going on, Bella is attracted to another rich, handsome guy Datuk Hashim(Eizlan Yusof). She started to use all her charm to attract Datuk Hashim in order to become his lover, and her admirer Faqir (Redza Minhat) offered his help to Bella.
Although the movie starts by showing how Intan and Bella are the typical gold diggers. They dress in the glamourous way, only think about marrying a rich man and didn't care to be a mistress or the fourth wife of an old man.
The film breaks these stereotype of women at the end of the movie. To prove herself is more than a pretty face, Intan volunteer to investigate the murder case. She decided to leave when Datuk Salleh blame her for not follow his order as she knows that she is an independent woman that do not need a man to tell her what to do. Bella didn't choose to continue her relationship with Datuk Hashim after she figured that she needs the love and caring from her husband more than his money. The movie is also showing the efforts they need to make to keep themselves "qualified" to become man's interest target.
Reference
Mulvey, L. (2009). Visual and other pleasures. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan.
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