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Gender roles in gangster movies are as sacrosanct as the omertà. For all intents and purposes to say the least. Traditionally, the men are out collecting protection money, doing shady deals in nightclubs, and torturing a suspected rat who broke their vaguely defined but inviolable code of honour. Meanwhile, the women they leave behind take care of the household. They are forced to operate like props in the background, slowly becoming one with the wallpaper. The agency they exercise is mostly limited to being a nagging conscience, like Diane Keaton in
The Godfather. Even then, they have little to no impact on the men s decisions or the narrative itself.
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But what does flipping the typically male-dominated genre on its head mean for a sense of ending? That was the challenge facing director Julia Hart. Often, the protagonists of these films are anti-heroes, leaving their conclusions ambiguous, if not downright tragic. But that s the last thing Hart, who also co-wrote the film with husband Jordan Horowitz, wanted for Jean. I only wanted her to win out in the end because the message of the movie, ultimately, is that the only way to survive is to survive together, she tells EW. We have to work together and build surprising, new communities and families in order to make it through the mess that we ve all created.
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