I Don’t Like Mondays
2023
Documentary
Experimental
True crime
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I Don't Like Mondays is an experimental documentary that delves into the story of Brenda Spencer, the first school shooter in U.S. history. Using a blend of archival footage, the film explores how gender plays a pivotal role in shaping the media's treatment of such events. Questioning why women’s violent acts are minimized, ignored, or framed as outliers to an expected maternal and nurturing image.
The film also engages with the feminist critique of violence, drawing on feminist scholar Camilla Paglia’s provocative assertion, "There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper," to question why female violence is not remembered in the same way as male violence.
This thought-provoking documentary challenges viewers to reconsider the nature of female violence, the erasure of women like Brenda Spencer from public discourse, and the dangerous consequences of a culture that refuses to acknowledge women’s full range of human experiences.
The film also engages with the feminist critique of violence, drawing on feminist scholar Camilla Paglia’s provocative assertion, "There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper," to question why female violence is not remembered in the same way as male violence.
This thought-provoking documentary challenges viewers to reconsider the nature of female violence, the erasure of women like Brenda Spencer from public discourse, and the dangerous consequences of a culture that refuses to acknowledge women’s full range of human experiences.
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