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dead women's bodies...not arranged artfully?
I keep appreciating new and different things when I watch Numb3rs. I'm currently watching the first episode, which was a serial rape/murder case. Now, when film and television have female victims, they usually make gore porn out of it: despite the fact that she is dead and/or maimed, surely one can still appreciate the aesthetics of her bloodied body laid out artfully, right? The prettiness of broken bodies isn't at all creepy, right? (Modern media: KIND OF CREEPY.)
On this dead female body in the first minute of Numb3rs, we have seen the hands and the face. Don puts on his gloves and reaches down and touches her chin, turns her head to look at her face. We're not looking at the splay of her legs or the curve of her breasts or any other sexualized facet of her anatomy, we're looking at her face. Throughout the episode, hands for agency (the women fight back) and faces for personhood. She's a person, a dead human being lying on the ground, and not a work of art.
On this dead female body in the first minute of Numb3rs, we have seen the hands and the face. Don puts on his gloves and reaches down and touches her chin, turns her head to look at her face. We're not looking at the splay of her legs or the curve of her breasts or any other sexualized facet of her anatomy, we're looking at her face. Throughout the episode, hands for agency (the women fight back) and faces for personhood. She's a person, a dead human being lying on the ground, and not a work of art.