Life, art and drama in the kitchen
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The Kitchen: A Prison in Woman in a Dressing Gown
The film is not a straightforward condemnation of her as a bad housewife at all. It's much more kind of pointing towards this inchoate sense of frustration or limitation that women should find their true selves in domestic labour and in the kitchen. Amy tries that route and it completely unravels. So she burns the chips, things catch on fire, the toast burns, the washing up isn't done, the mending's all over the place. She's lying to him in that clip as well, isn't it? Because this isn't a new method for doing the chips. It's the product of an accident, isn'tIt? But is the kitchen a prison in woman in a
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