This year's Oscar submissions in the international film race feature un-PC and frankly disturbing characters doing everything wrong
came from a TV documentary salaciously titled"It was about how common these boundary-crossing relationships are, how common it is that intelligent, professional women get into these situations. Even, in the case we based the film on, a psychologist who fell in love with a serial rapist," she says.
"As an artist, we should never think in good and evil, never think in black and white. We should always confront, be courageous and go into the spaces we are so afraid of." "I define myself as someone who is a feminist and who strives to create stories with female leading characters," she says. "I did a lot of soul searching because it is not that often that we see a woman who behaves this way. Of course, the majority of stories that have been discussed are about male predators preying on females. I was afraid the audience could findfirst screened in Sundance that el-Toukhy got her answer. At a post-premiere Q&A, a man stood up.
"I've never been able to identify with the cliche female characters, with the caring mother, the good wife, the woman torn between her family and her career," says el-Toukhy. "If we really want to have more strong female characters onscreen, we have to dive deeper and create more complex, subtle women onscreen."
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