Romantic Feminism and Existentialist Feminism, Discourse Analysis of the Film Barkhord-e Kheyli Nazdic

The main difference between Romantic feminism and Existentialist feminism is considering the everyday life as something original or not, or in other words, enjoying in everyday life or battling with it. There are two characters in an Iranian film, Barkhord-e KheyliNazdic, which present two kinds of view about the relations between men & women. The view of Nahid involves oppositions to men and avoidance from them, even this avoidance led to psychological discontent and make psychological complexes. On the contrary, Narges has no problem with men and has amorous relations to her wife. The life for Narges is full of success and full of jubilation, and for Nahid is full of sadness and losing. The film attempts to widespread the notion of “changing the world” which is the strategy of romantic feminism and acts via soft feminine methods, is better than "battling" strategy, the strategy of existentialist feminism.