Evaluation Essay - Answering the Four Questions About the Marketing Campaign for 'The Receptionist'
Here is my evaluation essay for the marketing campaign for 'The Receptionist', answering the four questions. The issues that my film explores are grief (the central protagonist has lost her daughter to suicide), sexual harassment and misogyny (the daughter's suicide was because of advances made by her male boss), and the concept of revenge (the central protagonist, Liz, kills the male boss because he drove her daughter to suicide). At the start of my teaser trailer the female protagonist, Liz, is presented in a haggard way, on Death Row for murder, and I have purposely chosen to subvert the typical femme fatale figure common in films from the noir genre, in terms of her appearance. Instead of a young ingenue, she is an older, wiser lady, and she wears prison fatigues instead of the seductive outfits or expensive dresses found on female characters from the genre. In some ways, however, she does have characteristics associated with the femme fatale character type; she is smar...
