The last time I posted on Big Brother I wrote:
The scene at the end of the episode where she played a little "prank" on Rodrigo was very interesting. No longer in the role of temptress, she casts about looking for something else to do, but the role of the prankster is a role that is already overburdened in the house. It seemed a great turnaround from Noirin as passive centre of male attention (something that the camera shot emphasised - from the other night with Marcus in her bed, the same camera captures her alone, seeking out Rodrigo's bed) to active prankster - the prankster as attention seeker - whereas before the men came to her for attention, now, stripped of her power she must seek.
The point being that she should have continued in her original role - as Sara did last year - rather than allowing the "blokes" to decide her role for her. The sight of Marcus and Halfwit's smug, self-congratulatory little chats together in the armchairs was horrible, as was Marcus saying, "come over here" and Noirin meekly obeying.
And yet it was Kris, who been mildly offensive to Halfwit who got evicted...
...Sara from last year's Big Brother. She was assigned the role of flirt/tease and it was by fully assuming the role that she succeeded in showing just how ridiculous the assignment was. She didn't deny it, or apologise for it, or claim she just couldn't help it, she just continued in the role, eventually forcing Rex and Darnell into such a preposterous misogyny that the constructed nature of the role was obvious for all to see - resulting in both of them being evicted before her. There is always a certain distance attached to such roles, hence the way to subvert them is not to deny or apologise for them, this is simply a way of passively accepting the roles, or to actively accept the roles (as Angel does), but to fully assume the role, to show it for what it is.With Noirin in Big Brother 10 we have the opposite of this. Noirin basically accepted that the "blokes" were right, that somehow her behaviour had caused the "blokes" to misread into her actions more than was there. She didn't continue in the role, but accepted that the "blokes" were right and apologised for her behaviour. And where did this get her? Alienated from everyone. Her power utterly gone, she was left in the centre of an absolutely futile argument in which all her previous admirers were against her and those she had chosen to side with had no emotional investment in her with which to defend her adequately.
The scene at the end of the episode where she played a little "prank" on Rodrigo was very interesting. No longer in the role of temptress, she casts about looking for something else to do, but the role of the prankster is a role that is already overburdened in the house. It seemed a great turnaround from Noirin as passive centre of male attention (something that the camera shot emphasised - from the other night with Marcus in her bed, the same camera captures her alone, seeking out Rodrigo's bed) to active prankster - the prankster as attention seeker - whereas before the men came to her for attention, now, stripped of her power she must seek.
The point being that she should have continued in her original role - as Sara did last year - rather than allowing the "blokes" to decide her role for her. The sight of Marcus and Halfwit's smug, self-congratulatory little chats together in the armchairs was horrible, as was Marcus saying, "come over here" and Noirin meekly obeying.
And yet it was Kris, who been mildly offensive to Halfwit who got evicted...
No comments:
Post a Comment