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| SUMMARY |
Laurel proceeds with Beau-line's launch at a press conference teeming with excited women, explaining that George wanted every woman to be "as beautiful as she wanted to be." Tom Lone arrives to question Laurel about her husband's murder. Outside, Catwoman destroys a row of trucks about to depart for Beau-line's midnight delivery. Tom baits Laurel into admitting she killed George, but before he can place her under arrest, Laurel pulls out a gun and shoots him. Suddenly, Catwoman appears and whips the gun out of Laurel's hands, supporting Tom as they escape from her office. |
| ANALYSIS |
Despite its predominant theme of personal duality, Catwoman in fact presents the viewer with characters of remarkable consistency; for example, just as Laurel has displayed supreme confidence in a product that will ruin the lives of its consumers, she is brazenly cocky enough to launch Beau-line as planned less than 24 hours after her husband's gruesome murder. Despite the jaunty grin on Laurel's face, however, Tom is a good enough detective not to trust a woman whose eyes have all but turned into cartoon dollar signs. While Catwoman spectacularly destroys the front axles of several delivery trucks, it initially seems that this feat could have been accomplished by an ordinary person. Only Catwoman, however, with her catlike speed, is able to travel throughout the country performing this task at numerous distributions centers that must exist if Hedare really expects every woman in America to get hooked on Beau-line. Interestingly, this issue is never addressed; in fact, considering the random abuse and car theft that commenced her night, it seems quite likely that Catwoman is demolishing vehicles for kicks and has totally forgotten that Beau-line is bad. Laurel, on the other hand, with her granite face and inordinate confidence, can be seen as a hero in her never-ending quest to unite every female in the audience with announcements like, "I'm a woman... I'm used to doing all kinds of things I don't wanna do!" In fact, it seems that Laurel has done nothing but exactly what she wants to do, including wearing an unfortunate pantsuit that rides up her crotch. As a rich and successful woman following her dream to sell poisonous face cream, Laurel is certainly a much more inspiring figure than Catwoman. As Laurel doesn't even hesitate to shoot Tom in the chest when he tries to arrest her, it becomes clear that Laurel is willing to follow her dream to the bitter end, as there is absolutely way she believes she can get away with yet another sloppy murder. On the other hand, in a city whose justice system is run by Keystone Cops who didn't notice when Catwoman not only escaped, but apparently retrieved her confiscated leather outfit on her way out, perhaps Laurel is entirely justified in her singleminded commitment to getting Beau-line on the shelves by midnight. |
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