Represenation of women in the film Headhunters


A corporate recruiter (Aksel Hennie), who moonlights as an art thief, plans to steal a valuable painting from the perfect candidate (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) for a job he needs to fill.

In the movie there are 3 different women: Diana, Lotte and Natasja. This already goes to show the disadvantage women had to the male actors in this film. 
The first women Diana, Roger Brown's wife who owns her own art gallery. After the start of the movie we see that she is quite demanding of Roger because wants to have a child and he seems to be ignoring that topic every time she mentions it. She appears to be a loyal companion till we see later in the film that she is possibly cheating on her husband. But at the end of the film we see that she made sacrifices to keep her husband safe, which is seen as true love to the audience and they pursued their life's in happiness.


The second women introduced into the film is presented is a very explicit way. This is with having intercourse with Roger Brown which gives the audience a overview of what type of man he is. She is then shown and portrayed to be very clingy and attached to Roger Brown despite him showing her no form of love or interests in her needs and after telling continuously that he isn't interested and he wants no form of contact.

Natasja, a Russian prosititute in the movie. In the film we only see her as a women that has come into the film for sex. This is a unpleasant way of representation of women. With all women in this film we get the understanding that womens main priority is sex.

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