D.the time travel we’ve seen quite a few in the movies. The French comedy Flashback by Caroline Vigneaux (su Prime Video) makes us do one sui generis. First of all, the time machine is a Taxi; second, he has a woman as a passenger, Charlie, played by the director herself, Caroline Vigneaux; third, women are the absolute protagonists.
Charlie passes from one era to another, meets various historical figures, first she is incredulous then when she finds herself treated like a witch and almost burned at the stake she realizes that it is not the hangover effect of the previous evening. It is truly transcending the ages.
But why? Caroline Vigneaux uses a fun gimmick to make a point on women’s rights.
The plot of Flashback
Charlie works in a large Paris law firm. This time she is called by her boss to solve a practically lost cause: she has to defend a man accused of rape. Charlie manages to win by accusing the poor victim of wearing that day provocative lingeriethe.
The protagonist of “Flashback” in 1893. (Prime Video)
Victory could become a precedent that would seriously jeopardize the protection of women. But a Charlie it doesn’t matter, his professional duty has brought it to an end. This is what matters to her. In short, he professes himself one who snubs movement #MeToo.
In prehistoric times. (Prime Video)
The same evening of the festivities preys a taxi to go home. Actually the taxi driver Hubert catapulted her back in time. The woman, incredulous, she is faced with a heroic Giovanna D’Arco, then suddenly in prehistoric times, and again during the French Revolution where it meets Robespierre It is in the [1945, where it crosses the Grandmother struggling with the first political vote in which women could participate.
During the journey, the protagonist discovers how hard the struggle of the to conquer gods was rights, rights and freedoms you enjoy without realizing it. The cynical and unscrupulous lawyer has returned to the present day will recognize their mistakes.
The historical characters that Charlie meets in the past
Charlie is catapulted first of all into the 15th century, at the time of the fighter Giovanna D’Arco, here the lawyer stands with his back to the wall and is judged as one witch with hell inside (when she shows naked in red lingerie the bishop has no doubts).
Shortly after he finds himself in the 1850 and comes immediately arrested for wearing pants. To get her out of trouble is the writer and feminist of the time George Sand, who wrote under a male pseudonym.
Then it’s up to the 1964, to 1945 and al 1982 where Charlie meets i parents (finds out why the mother left her father) and the grandmother voting for the first time. In 1793 women want to be an active part of French politics and Olympe de Gouge is one of the protagonists, she is the one who wrote the Declaration of the rights of women and citizens. Charlie she is dazzled by that figure she had completely removed from her memory.
The funniest meeting, however, is between Charlie and Napoleon Bonaparte who in 1804 was writing his Civil Code. Napoleon is convinced that women are only capable of obeying men. The protagonist will make a liaison with him to try to change the course of history.
Flashback, time travel and women’s rights
Time travel is a excuse to tell the progress made by women in the conquest of theirs rights, so as not to forget and not take for granted what has been done. Caroline Vigneaux it essentially takes us back in time to fun and for reflect on the past, but above all on the present day.
Charlie with Napoleon. (Prime Video)
THEthe past is reflected in the present: in many parts of the world women are still treated as in the Middle Ages And violence is also a plague of the 21st century. In some ways we are still stuck at the stake. Flashback talk about women and it is aimed at women, but it would certainly be good for men too.
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