Hannah Jolley - Evaluation: Question 2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Maya Dolman Bowles (left) and a screen shot of Rachelle Lefevre (right) from the film 'The Caller''.

Our media product presents our main character as a young blonde women, conforming to the stereotypical view of this social group by being vulnerable and unable to cope independently. 

The 2010 Thriller film 'The Caller'
starring Rachelle Lefevre.

• In the film 'The Caller', Rachelle Lefevre, plays a young blonde 'Mary Kee', a troubled divorcee who receives numerous mysterious and sinister phone calls from a strange woman. 
• This is a typical female character in a Thriller as she becomes mentally unstable and is then supported with the help of a man. 
• The role of this character in the film is to represent the stereotypical social group of young blonde middle class women, in this case, attempting to recover psychologically from her divorce and establishes her own life again once she meets a good-looking male college teacher. 
• This character's role and appearance is similar to the one in our Thriller as they are both young, attractive blonde women who are psychologically unstable and are vulnerable when threatened by a implied danger in the film. 
• Both character's have clothing of plain colours, to show their normality from their appearance but there are unknown psychological problems which the audience don't recognise when first seeing the protagonist.

In this clip, the character 'Mary Kee' is seen as being vulnerable as the clip shows her moving into a new house on her own, and she begins to get mysterious phone calls which unnerve her as the film progresses. 

Maya Dolman Bowles (left) and a screen shot of Rebecca De Mornay (right) from the film
"The Hand That Rocks the Cradle". 

The 1992 Thriller film 'The Hand That
Rocks the Cradle' where Rebecca De Mornay
plays a twisted woman.

• In the film, "The Hand That Rocks the Cradle" Rebecca De Mornay plays, "Peyton Flanders", a vengeful nanny who is out to destroy a naive woman's happy lifestyle and steal her family. 
• This puts a twist on the stereotypical view of blonde female social group's, seen in most mainstream Thriller's and challenges the stereotype as she is the evil character, although she has psychological problems, she isn't vulnerable and acts as the threat to the other characters. 
• Her appearance is similar to the protagonist in our Thriller as again, she is an attractive blonde woman who on the surface seems like a ordinary woman but as the audience find out, she is a manipulative and evil character. 
• The role of Peyton Flanders represents one to show how woman can become extremely mentally unstable due to a tragic life situation, in this case, having a miscarriage.