Reflecting back to week7 lectorial and reading, we noticed the same example of the gap toothed women was shown during the lectorial which really attracted my attention. I think is very clever that who has noticed the specail of gap-toothed women and the director has make it a advance instead of a flaw.

Categories are groupings that individuals or societies create to organize their knowledge of the world. It may base on scientific research, and these will often attempt to account exhaustively for all the data in question. An example of categorical form was Gap-Toothed Women, which was conceived, directed and filmed by Les Blank, who has been making personal documentary films since 1960s. I have never heard of a category called gap-toothed women until I saw Blank’s documentary and I think the documentary was well break down into segments that indicate that gap-toothed was seemed to be flaws at the beginning, by the end, Blank shows how being gap-toothed is associated with attractiveness, active and creativity. I particular like the part when there were few shots give on a close view of a woman’s mouth with a large gap and leads to their ‘signature’ bite on an apple, this was sort of showing being gap-tooth was disadvantaged but Blank has shown this through a humor, cute way.