Boy Next Door Oppression

Oppression and the Movie Boy Next Door Boy Next Door is a 2015 psychological thriller starring Jennifer Lopez. As the plot of the movie is centered around a young man that tries to exploit the main character, Claire, there are many themes pertaining to social justice, particularly the five faces of oppression and sexism especially. Specific details of these instances will be brought to light after the setup of the movie is further explained. The protagonist of the story, Mrs. Claire Peterson is a high school classic literature teacher who is just getting out of a divorce. Her ex husband, Garrett, cheated on her with his secretary. Because of this, Claire now lives alone with her son Kevin. At the beginning of the movie, Noah, the nephew
Claire comes into her classroom the next day to find pictures of her sexual encounter with Noah scattered throughout the room. Taped to walls, strung up across the classroom, and hundreds of pictures lying on the floor. When Claire came home that night, Noah was in her living room, watching a game with her son Kevin and ex husband Garrett. She went into the kitchen and Noah followed her. He cornered Claire, groped her and started humping her from behind. Noah threatened Clair, and said that he would show the video that he had of their intercourse to Kevin and Garrett if she did not meet him in private. As Noah was trying to force Claire into having sex with him so that he would keep the video private, he was using blackmail to exploit or benefit from
Garrett freed himself and used the ropes he was bound with to grab Noah by the neck and throw him off of Claire. In retaliation, Noah shot Garrett in the chest. Claire flung herself onto Garrett, crying over his body. Noah then pulled her to her feet, and as Noah was going on about how Claire could trust him, Clair lodged the Epi-Pen that had been in her pocket into Noah’s eye. Noah then blindly shot in every direction and as Clair ran to him to take the gun, he grabbed her throat. As Noah was choking her she reached her hand towards his face and Claire plunged her thumb into Noah’s eye that was already damaged by the Epi-Pen. Noah punched her to the ground and aimed his gun at Claire. Just as Noah was about to pull the trigger, Kevin came up from behind and hit Noah with a large wooden rod. As Noah was distracted fighting her son, Claire pulled a lever that dropped a very large onto Noah, killing