Stricken

Upon viewing Mr. Chilsen's movie, Stricken, I noticed a few things about the man behind the camera. As a Psychology student, I couldn't help but notice a few things contained within the movie that seem to reveal a few things about this man. These themes seem to point to an objectification and seeming hatred of women. This could be caused by, suggested in the movie, repressed homosexual feelings suggested by the repeated homophobic "insults" spewed back and forth by the characters. Mr. Chilsen, a college professor, portrays blue-collar workers as abusive red-necks whose loathing of these college kids illustrates a superiority complex of the "educated" over "the working man." This hatred could stem from his upbringing in the working class town of Wausau. Where, judging from his psychosis, he was ostracized at an early age, forming a generalized hatred toward the people he viewed as rejecting him.