1. It is a battle, defining places in your life where you will resist and also managing places where your happiness has become attached to unhealthy constructions.
2. I love how the film used the pueblo to advance the story of colonization in parallel with the story of the mother's eyelids. I think this comment about the pueblo not even really being constructed by native americans is telling, too. Even after the mother gets surgery, she is still not attaining the real standard. It's still not authentic, because those standards are only truly attainable to a few. But why not make an industry from people's attempts to try. And then, is there any incentive to make women feel good in their bodies?
3. "... you want to look good, but you don't want them [other people] to know how much effort goes into it ." This is part of how we have constructed femininity. Effortless, flawless beauty. The effort is important, because excess work makes you masculine. So it's as if even the work that women must endure to perform feminity is in itself unfeminine. Therefore it must be hidden.
4. You have to be aware of the stories that you tell through your actions and through your words. Stories are powerful, which is a point that Toni Morrison is making through The Bluest Eye. In terms of Two lies, it becomes clear that this is part of this movie's point as well. The story could be simply the story of a woman who gets eyelid surgery. The inclusion of children is crucial to the story, because we get to see firsthand the story this mother is telling through her decisions and words. This is the raw material with which her children will then have to build their own narratives.
5. I love Kaw's point about the body being a place for resistance. So. So. True. The questions raised by The Bluest Eye and this weeks reading force me to question the potential for structural change with simultaneous individual complacency?
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