G.I. Jane . Tucson Weekly . 09-08-97

G.I. Jane

DIRECTED BY: Ridley Scott

REVIEWED: 09-08-97

In this calculated women-in-the-military story, Demi Moore pulls out all the stops (not to mention all her hair) to make a career comeback, while Ridley Scott pulls out all his telephoto lenses to score another feminist hit like he did with Thelma & Louise. The results are powerful yet trite: Scenes of intense Navy SEALs training provoke an almost S&M fascination but very little direct meaning; and Moore's aggressive, muscled performance, while gutsy, only exacerbates the script's lack of nuance. According to G.I. Jane, it's somehow a "victory" when a woman proves she can endure torture and kill Arabs as good as any man. This moral has far less to do with society evolving its perspective than it does with women simply emulating men in order to inhabit the man's world. Moore's triumphant line, "Suck my dick," says it all--since she has symbolically become male, sexual politics no longer matter. Gee, wouldn't it be great if all women could be just like Demi?

--Woodruff

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