Women have always been at the forefront of films, but can be sadly overlooked. Maybe it was due to the lack of women behind the camera, the audiences, the time period, or a million other reasons. However, when this new art came about in the 20th century, women's stories have been categorized by stereotype or gender and fallen into a 'women suffering' type of film.
These films went from housewives to martyrdom to eventually being the lead in their own stories. Whether we see their point of view or see them as completely objectified, we came to understand the context, emotion, longing, and process of this suffering due to internal or external means.
