Netflix is set to break stereotypes with their upcoming teenage movie. For once, they will address the actual situations that normally go around during one’s teen years, something that every girl faces anywhere and everywhere in the world. “Moxie”, Amy Poehler directed Netflix movie is a movie about rebellion, but in a way that will bring out the betterment amongst people. Every woman out there faces sexist remarks and harassment of some sorts in every field they are. Most of it starts early in school, a crucial time period when one should be taught what is right and what is wrong.
The movie shows how a teenage girl, who witnesses sexism in her school, takes ideas from her mother’s teen years of trying to break patriarchy and releases a zine in school that starts schooling harassers out in the open. It takes the form of almost a rebellion in the school, when almost everyone comes to know of what actually goes on. The movie focuses on all these with a hint of comedy and of course, a bit teen romance too.
Now, the point here is that when a teen movie can speak about such pressing issues, why Indian web-series can’t do that. In the name of women power and feminism, we have very few shows and out of that, “Four More Shots Please” has an awful lot of fans. When it comes to college and teen movies and web-series Indian most of the time focus more on the romance aspect of it, rather than addressing the pressing issues that today’s teenagers and women face.
Now, on the other hand we have had a pathbreaking show like the, “Kota Factory”, which collectively addressed the issues of a student and someone who was going to enter college, it was meaningful in every sense. But we don’t have such shows when it comes to addressing issues a woman faces. Many might say now that, “Four More Shots Please” have addressed issues like partiality in places like corporate, but all the other things were so heavy that this small scene almost got sidelined.
In terms of women centric shows, again very few ones and out of those we have certain shows that only focuses on the erotic part. That too in a way, which has become a total cringefest. Moxie can be an example of how a certain sensitive topic can be put forward and be a lesson for makers in the Indian platform who want to cover such issues. We have the web, instead of releasing seasons after seasons of web-series that keeps struggling in abundance, why not make something that can teach the younger generation about what actually is going on out there.