The article discusses the representation of women's bodies in cinema, emphasizing the importance of how female filmmakers portray these bodies. It highlights Gia Coppola's film "The Last Showgirl" and Jamie Lee Curtis's performance as Annette, a cocktail waitress who dances in a Las Vegas casino. The narrative reflects on society's often neglectful gaze towards older women and the beauty found in their stories. It illustrates a call for greater appreciation and nuanced depiction of women's experiences and bodies, pushing back against objectification.
As slot machines ping around her, she slowly gyrates to the 1980s hit Total Eclipse of the Heart. Annette looks like she's in her own world.
Curtis, who's 66, has said the scene shows the degradation of women at the end of their lives, adding, that nobody cares.
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