VLVL2 The Women's Film Collective

[Paul Mackin]

On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 23:26, Terrance wrote:
> > 
> > While it is true that Frenesi becomes the pawn of Brock Vond who
> > subverts the activist agenda of the group through her, to assume
> > that the group is a failure because of Frenesi's idealism is short-sighted.
> 
> A pawn? More like a Knight. Or maybe, as Paul implied, a Queen. 

One image I have of Frenesi is that of Eve playing to Brock's serpent.
P. 214 alludes to the innocence (even ignorance) of the Sixties
children. (It is easy, for me anyway, to picture them, including
Frenesi, as happy dwellers in a paradisaical garden--i.e.,a garden of
permanent revolution.) Frenesi does not quite understand what Brock is
offering her but wonders if it is the secret about power in the world.