warning! spoiler Roar.
Roar Season 1, episode 3, “The Woman On The Shelf”, ends with the protagonist being the story’s trophy wife, Amelia, simply being moved to another shelf, making it the episode only doesn’t really have a happy ending. RoarSeries of eight feminist fables for Apple TV+, based on the book Roar An anthology of 30 short stories about the struggles of women by Cecelia Ahern. Although the series relies heavily on magical realism, Roar Finally rooted in social reality, which can be observed in what happened to Amelia.
Amelia is a woman who has been participating in children’s beauty pageants since she was a child. After that, Amelia became a professional model – until she was attracted to the man of her dreams and married him. However, Amelia’s husband then builds a scaffold to make Amelia a true title wife, a life that at first pleases Amelia but ultimately robs her of her independence and free will. Miss. In the end, Amelia ruined the atmosphere and left her husband.
RoarAt the end of episode 3, Amelia climbs onto another shelf to advertise her self-titled beauty brand, inferring that she built the company herself. This ending is an example Roar Subverting feminist messages in modern media and entertainment. By building her own niche—even though she’s just destroyed what her husband has built—Amelia shows that the process of becoming a strong, independent woman doesn’t happen overnight. . In fact, the one-year difference between Amelia’s two shelves is an example of the lasting effects of internalized misogyny, subconscious projection, and acceptance of discriminatory ideas. women’s gender. Throughout her life, Amelia had been trained to be a living trophy to satisfy men’s gazes. By returning to the bookshelf she built herself, Amelia shows how political awareness doesn’t just magically happen after a dramatic gesture or event. Even within the confines of magical realism, internalized misogyny is an ideological burden that can take years to overcome.
Amelia’s fate shows that while a woman’s vision and presence is important, more important is how women use these opportunities to impact the world. . At first glance, Amelia’s new bookshelf is a dramatic reversal of her husband’s feminine deviant. However, when a little girl walks into the store and tells Amelia that she is beautiful, the shelf prevents Amelia from telling the girl that it is not only beautiful, because the girl leaves and Amelia stays on the shelf. That’s when Amelia realized that even though she had left her husband and started her own business, she was still a living trophy whose value to the world was ultimately determined by her beauty. that – is an example RoarComplex views on feminism. The girl who showed Amelia that even the next generation would only want to admire her beauty and not listen to what she had to say, echoing what Amelia’s mother had told her when she was a child, “If I had to choose between being smart or pretty, I’d choose to be pretty.”
Roar Season 1 Episode 3 “Sheltered Woman” deals with how internally fighting feminism/sexism is an ongoing struggle. Amelia’s new bookshelf represents an evolution in political consciousness. Furthermore, Amelia’s reaction to being admired but ignored shows that she will continue to grow.
Roar Currently streaming on Apple TV+.