10 Best Female Movie Characters Of 2015

9. Shasta Fay Hepworth (Katherine Waterston) - Inherent Vice

As in Thomas Pynchon€™s source novel of the same name, Shasta Fay Hepworth (Katherine Waterston) is a beguiling presence, more a beautiful apparition than a character; a slinking, sultry, kind-of femme fatale (but not really); a California surf-chick unconcerned with being a California surf-chick. She teases Doc (Joaquin Phoenix) in one of the year€™s great sexual scenes and is the reason he gets in way over his head, but there€™s nothing malicious about her, nothing manipulative. But then there kind of is, because she knows Doc loves her and will do anything for her. She€™s a walking ambiguity, a stunning, tanned enigma. Played by Waterston, Shasta Fay is an embodiment of how the love-filled 60s filtered out into the more nervous 70s: on the one hand she€™s a flower child, all blonde hair and bikini bottoms and flashbacks to when she and Doc danced in the rain to Neil Young. On the other she€™s an increasingly anxious young woman, seeking out a safe old face because she€™s in deep with some shady characters keen to leave the decade behind. She ends the film in Doc€™s front seat, driving towards an uncertain future but always glancing in the rear-view, looking back, as she goes.
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No-one I think is in my tree, I mean it must be high or low?