And in Manifesto's best segment, Blanchett turns the principles of Dada into a bitter, ranting eulogy delivered to
blank -
faced mourners: «One dies as a hero, or as an idiot, which is the
same thing.»
The film is just as much about the ownership of women's bodies as it is about an alien invasion — ScarJo's
blank face and slight, twitchy physicality are incredible to watch, as the men she encounters (many of them non-actors who were captured with hidden cameras) leer at her, make conversation, and eventually get sprung by the
same trap they clearly wish to set for Scarlett.