Steven Soderbergh’s ‘Unsane’ is a horror movie for the #MeToo era

In the ’70s, The Stepford Wives emerged as pop culture’s response to Betty Friedan’s seminal 1963 feminist text, The Feminine Mystique. Intentionally or not, the Stepford Wives book (which was written by a man) and the Stepford Wives movie (which was produced, written, and directed by men) came across as manifestations of the male consciousness reckoning with patriarchal oppression, and with what women had been trying to tell them for decades.

Similarly, Steven Soderbergh’s new horror-thriller Unsane captures a watershed moment of women’s liberation in our generation, but from the perspective of a collective male unconscious finally forced to face the truth. Read more…

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