she probably doesn't have any powers
Michelle Lopes at Blumhouse calls The Craft a film that instead of having "feminism [as] a gimme... Internalizes its misogyny like a teenager collapsing around her own angst." But, think about the subjective/objective experience of the film that I was talking about yesterday . Like Lisa Lagace at Marie Claire points out: [F]or a teenager in 1996 who was unsure of her place in the world, it appealed on a deeply powerful level. The Craft celebrated the unconventional girl. It encouraged teens to shake off the non-stop, crippling fear of not fitting in, and embrace the power of being different. And it hit theaters during a time when cinema just wasn't advocating female outsiderdom. Nitpick: the very same May weekend that The Craft hit theaters, so did Barb Wire , which wasn't very good but absolutely positioned a woman in a position of power, and I Shot Andy Warhol , not exactly a very positive vision of a woman still centered on one. Of course, then. You also ha...