From Hell

In class, we read the graphic novel From Hell by Alan Moore.  It really fit into the gothic horror theme of the class. Even without reading the story, you can tell from the pictures that the story will be criptic, creepy and eerie.  The pictures in the film really relate to gothic horror because throughout it consistently, has dark very shadowed pictures, also very explicit pictures.  The story line is the story of Jack the Ripper, which is a very popular story.  It is about a man, Gull who murders five woman, brutally, to show that the male is dominant.

Throughout the class, gender roles consistently come up with every movie that we watch.  From Hell is a prime example of this "patriarchy" and male dominance.  The men must stay in control, or else there will be an unbalance in the community.  Just as in From Hell, Gull believes that he is ridding the world of these whores, and making sure that in the future, male dominance is still assured.  This male dominance is seen in most of the films we have watched, specifically relating to Jack the Ripper, The Lodger, and Bluebeard.  Both of this films have men who are part of society, but feel the need to rid the society of woman because they are a distraction with their beauty.  They show their dominance over woman through fear, and then through overpowering them and eventually killing them.