The movie headhunters or hodejegerne is a movie about a corporate recruiter named Roger Brown who is also a thief who sneaks into people's homes and steals valuable artwork to pay for his wife's ,Diana Brown, expensive lifestyle. However he sneaks into the wrong person's' house and gets caught and is being hunted by Clas Greve ,a former mercenary, who he tried to steal from.
There are only three women in this movie: Diana (played by Synnøve Macody Lund) who is Roger's wife, Lotte (played by Julie R. Ølgaard) who is the woman Roger is having an affair with and Natasja (played by Valentina Alexeeva) who is a prostitute that Ove is sleeping with.
The first time we are introduced to Diana she is naked in the shower, from the first scene we see a woman in she is naked clearly sexualising her to show Roger's status as a man, to further back up my point he even say that he is overcompensating for his height by having a beautiful wife. In a scene only a few seconds later we see that Diana has a walk in wardrobe clearly showing that they have money and the narration that goes behind the scene says that even though Roger doesn't like it and cant afford it he does it for her, which would make the audience feel that Diana is only interested in money and status and is only with Roger for his money.
The next woman we see is Lotte and she is in a sex scene with Roger this clearly makes Roger disloyal and dishonest and clearly sees women as objects of pleasure, and as soon as Lotte ask him to come to dinner with her he instantly ends the affair making it look like she's worthless and meant nothing to him which she clearly didn't.
After this we have a scene where Roger is in a conference discussing taking on a new ceo at his company, a few seconds later we are taking to Diana's art gallery in which she is talking a socialising and being good host making the audience see her as a nice kind-hearted woman. After this it shift to a scene where Diana and Roger are discussing a famous painting that it worth millions clearly showing that she is an intelligent upper class woman.
The next scene we have is of Ove and Natasja and the are naked firing blank shots at each other. Natasja is a prostitute so from that we can infer that women are objectified and used only as sexual device.
Overall the movie is a good movie with a strong storyline and thrilling aspect however the hypersexualisation of women through the movie is very wrong about depicting women as sexual objects from a woman's point of view i can see that its wrong.
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