I would like for that to change.”īrad: “ You know all that abstinence bullshit, we all know who you are saving yourself for. There is a stark dichotomy between them - dark/light, repressive/obsessive - yet he often shows a softness and patience towards her as evidenced by one of the few scenes they have together:ĭawn: “We’ve never been close, never been like brother and sister, I don’t know why”ĭawn: “I really don’t. He is regularly dismissive towards women, yet there is a difference with Dawn. Brad continues to anally have sex with Melanie without a care in the world - screw that bitch, right? He lacks respect for women of all species, except for Dawn, because he fears her. He ignored her cries for help, eliminating all empathy and compassion to a woman that helped raise him, and is terminally ill. This could be a parody of his feelings towards his step-mother as he is tantamount to her death. He teases Mother with a dog treat and then teases Melanie with the same canine snack. She is a backyard dog, not a pet she is aggressive, which is highly entertaining to Brad and he doesn’t even take the dog seriously. And strike she/Dawn does.īrad abuses another woman in his life, Mother, his Rottweiler (another castrating bitch). And in the seminal book The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis (1993) by Barbara Creed, she states that the “Medusa’s visage is alive with images of toothed vaginas, poised and ready to strike”. Lustful, inappropriate, greedy, violent men are turned to stone. In some readings, her image is used by the goddess Minerva as a symbol of power, and Medusa’s transformation is seen as less of a punishment/curse, but a blessing of protection against men. Her decapitated head is used by Perseus in battle, taking advantage of her forced monstrousness. But on the ravish’d virgin vengeance takes, Her shining hair is chang’d to hissing snakes.” Punished for this event, Medusa’s gaze turns men to stone. She was “ravished”or as the story actually goes: “ And seiz’d, and rifled the young, blushing maid. Medusa, the woman from myth, who was the victim of rape in Ovid’s Metamorphoses (8 AD), Medusa (one of three Gorgons), transforms from a beautiful woman to a monster after having been sexually assaulted in a temple. This is revisited at the end of Teeth where Brad is seen watching 7 Faces of Dr. Though his parents never did find out what happened (his assault on Dawn), Brad remains transfixed he refuses to have vaginal sex with his girlfriend, Melanie, and sticks only to anal sex.ĭawn learns more about her condition through books on Greek mythology and the figure of the monstrous Gorgon Medusa. Dawn is representative of the monstrous feminine, the Femme Castratrice, and Brad is vagina fearing, forever captivated by this childhood moment that changed his life forever. This is the origin of Brad’s obsession and fear of Dawn. Yet, there is one man in her life who is different, and that is her stepbrother Brad (John Hensley).Īfter an incident as kids in a pool while playing a game of “I show you mine, you show me yours”, the tip of Brad’s finger is lacerated off by an unknown cause. Her journey throughout the movie is emotional, as time and time again she is sexually assaulted by men whom she should be able to trust whether it be a boyfriend, a doctor, or a lover. Teeth (2007), directed by Mitchell Lichtenstein, is a refreshing coming of age tale starring the underrated Jess Weixler as the virginal Dawn who has been cursed (or blessed, based on your perceptions) with the folkloric vagina dentata (a vagina filled with teeth).
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