11 Awesome Movies With Disturbing Messages

6. Strong, Powerful Women Are Probably Crazy - Fatal Attraction

Fatal Attraction may have netted Glenn Close a well-deserved Best Actress Oscar nomination, but the film's depiction of a successful, professional woman as a secret head-case stalker says a lot about the anxieties of shifting gender dynamics in the workplace in the late 1980s.

The film ferociously defends the notion of what at the time was a "conventional" family unit, where the object of Close's character's affection, Dan (Michael Douglas), is the bread-winner for his wife Beth (Anne Archer), who takes a more passive role by raising their daughter.

Close's Alex, as a confident, career-minded feminist, represents the opposite of this outdated ideal, and that's not only something that's depicted as crazy in this film, but even worthy of being killed, apparently, as the film ends with Beth shooting Alex in the chest (admittedly in self-defence).

That Beth, the literal embodiment of the "traditional" wife or partner, is the one to kill Alex only makes the movie's message that much more blatant and unsettling.