Synopsis

The film is based around Penny and her relationship and revenge with her husband Stan. The film is set over a year during the late 1960s.
Penny is middle aged and has no children. She is a stereotypical 1960s housewife who tends to Stan's every need. Whilst Stan, is the breadwinner and demands that Penny is constantly being the perfect wife.
The film adopts a linear structure, telling of Penny's history before the disruption and resolution scene. We therefore align more with the protagonist.
Throughout the majority of the film, Penny is oppressed and abused by her patriarchal husband. The keyframes will begin from the disruption, ending scene (8). Here, the roles have reversed, instead of Penny being oppressed, she has become the oppressor towards Stan, switching the stereotypical, patriarchal gender roles. (This links to my textual analysis of Django Unchained and Inglourious Basterds as Tarantino typically makes the oppressed become the oppressor.)
The disruption scene explores Penny's liberation and power, and Stan's development to being the submissive 'house-husband'. We see Penny's characteristics develop from a passive housewife to a psychotic. This is portrayed through the music that plays on the radio whilst she carries out the abuse on Stan. The film results with Stan physically and emotionally losing his male pride and manhood. This aspect of the film links to those explored through Tarantino's; the aiming the gun to the crotch scenes in Django Unchained and Inglourious Basterds distinctly portrays emasculation.
The film ends with the gender roles being reversed, giving Stan a taste of his own medicine, through a psychotic but satisfying method.