Summary: In this article, it brings up 3 specific films, including the film I will be researching, Moulin Rouge! It discusses the males' emotional suffering over the females' physical suffering. In the article, specifically the Moulin Rouge areas, it talks about how "the heroine must sacrifice herself sexually, yet the hero’s emotions are the ones that are in focus." It discusses, with many examples, how the female's suffering is referred to the male mind, like how Satine is living as a prostitute and must sacrifice herself to the Duke, yet the storyline is set mainly around Christian's emotions and his love for her and his suffering.
Evaluation: This article was useful, because it is analyzing how these films were made, especially Moulin Rouge! I think that it is a reliable source, because it is a scholarly article and written by someone who is in the Department of Language Studies at Umeå University in Sweden. I think that this article may be a little bias, because it only talks about how the films only look at the males emotional suffering and not the females. Most of the time that is true, but not completely. In Moulin Rouge, it shows Satine's emotional suffering when she gets sick and eventually dies.
Reflection: This research was helpful to me, because it has a lot of information on Moulin Rouge! and how the story works and how melodramatic it really is. It hasn't really changed my opinion on the topic, because everything that they talked about were things that I noticed when watching the film.
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