The mononymous megastar was just starting out when Desperately Seeking Susan gave wild girls everywhere a new heroine.
She’s lying back with her arms behind her head, smiling because she knows everything. She’s wearing a spangly jacket and glowing, a bit. Renaissance painters used to mix crushed quartz into their paints to achieve such an effect, but for, I think it’s natural. At 13, I have a magic trick of imagining myself into photos. I’m in the moment before, or the moment after. I am just out of frame, receiving Madonna’s wisdom on love affairs and how to achieve “smokey” eyes.had landed.
Early Madonna style appeared to be achievable. Soon I was decked out in bracelets , crucifixes , a floppy black bow , a lace curtain worn as a poncho over a mesh vest . My plundering created the desired effect, but only if I stood back from the mirror and squinted. Still, it was something to come home from school, whisk off my hated uniform and change into my secret, glamorous identity. It was a private, tremulous glamour. If anyone else were to see it, it would disappear instantly.
Madonna as Susan is a glittering vagabond and object of obsession for New Jersey housewife Roberta . Roberta’s been following Susan and Jim’s correspondence in the personal ads – “Desperately seeking Susan. Meet me, four o’clock, Battery Park. Keep the faith. Love, Jim” – and one day, she leaves the suburbs to stake out their rendezvous. Roberta tails Susan around Manhattan’s Lower East Side.
At their next would-be meet-up, Roberta knocks her head, suffers amnesia and is mistaken for Susan, who we learn is being chased by a gangster. The rest of the film has Susan seeking Roberta seeking herself, with the gangster in hot pursuit, and hapless love interests futzing on the sidelines.
In Jungian terms, Susan fits the female trickster archetype: lawless, playful, an agent of change. She typified film critic Carrie Rickey’s “eighties new-girl heroine”. The new girl was like the younger sister of the ’70s feminists, “more radically tak feminist values as their assumption”. New girls understood that there had been a shift in the social strata, but that no one quite knew what that meant yet. Maybe their older sisters got shafted, but that wasn’t going to happen to them.
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