"Ocean’s 8": a reference film of the feminist era or a stereotype about beautiful and cunning women

"Ocean’s 8" Gary Ross is a continuation of "Ocean's Eleven" franchise. The main roles in the film were performed by actresses and singers, from Sandra Bullock and Cate Blanchett to Rihanna and Anne Hathaway. Bullock plays Debbie Ocean, sister of "Ocean's Eleven" protagonist Danny Ocean, who is preparing to commit a massive robbery. In my opinion, "Ocean’s 8" is the most predictable blockbuster of the year.

Of course, the word "friend" in the title is strictly conditional. Friends in criminal matters does not happen - only accomplices. He is dedicated to this picture, which continues the Steven Soderbergh trilogy about Danny Ocean and his robberies. At this time in the center of events - the sister of Danny, who was released after a five-year imprisonment fraudster Debbie Ocean (Sandra Bullock). And her goal - an unprecedented necklace "Toussaint" worth $ 150 million, which she plans to steal right from the neck of a famous actress at a charity ball in the New York Metropolitan Museum, the legendary Met Gala.

The rules of the game laid down in the plot and genre are not violated even once. The most predictable of summer blockbusters of the summer, "Ocean’s 8" is pleasant precisely because of its cozy pattern. Eight motley cheats elegantly mix up the harsh men from the security service and turn the elegant scam so that no one will suffer - except capitalists, whom the viewer will not sympathize with anyway. Judge for yourself who will worry about losing Cartier?

Each character (in the roles - famous actresses) will have their own paint, their own ability, their own costume. Debbie herself is decisive, swift, charmingly cynical. Her best friend and, it seems, not only friend Lu (Cate Blanchett) is cold, sensible, ironic. Both are not young for a long time, but they only get prettier every year.

Amita (Tamilo-American and the star of the series “The Office” Mindy Kaling) is a masterly jeweler, Constance (rapper Awkwafina) is a technical pickpocket, Nine (singer Rihanna) is a brilliant hacker: these characters are highly functional and represent the entire nationally politically correct spectrum. The company also has a classic American blonde housewife Tammy (Sarah Paulson) and an eccentric English girl Rose (Helena Bonham Carter as a crazy designer). Joker in the deck is a superstar used by a scammer, a beautiful and stupid goose Daphne Kluger: she was played by Anne Hathaway funny and convincing. The only, and expected, plot twist is connected with its heroine. As if this is not enough, Serena Williams and Adriana Lima, Dakota Fanning and Kim "Kardashian, Heidi Klum and Maria Sharapova still flash in the crowd.

It is not difficult to notice that there is practically no place for men in this world. As far as the patriarchal, in the most sympathetic, old-fashioned sense of the word, the world of the Soderbergh trilogy was, the space of "Ocean’s 8" was so cleaned out. It is characteristic that the living in the finals of "Ocean's Eleven" Danny Ocean 11 years later is dead and buried, and the year of his death is the 2018th. However, in the comfortable world of this franchise, no one finally dies, and the film is full of thick hints of the imminent resurrection of the charming swindler. But so far there is no Danny on the screen. Only slippery art dealer Claude Becker (Richard Armitage), who once passed Debbie to the authorities and now has to incur karmic punishment. It serves as a psychological alibi for the viewer who sincerely sympathizes with the beauty of the thieves in their illegal cases. Girlfriends do not just steal diamonds, they take revenge on the peasant! And then let it be done.