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I think he treats women as plot devices, like most of Hollywood. Sometimes the plot devices are there to die so the man can get pissed. Sometimes they are background props to heighten tensions (the wife in "The Untouchables," for instance). They are just ways to manipulate the audience, and really not real characters to him. Even in Carrie she was a plot device, though he got into her perspective enough to make her complex.
I'm not a fan of his, in general. I appreciate his attention to detail on a set, and he does string the story together well in a consistent narrative, but I never feel like he has anything to say, like his films are just scenes to manipulate the audience. Now and then I like him. Mission:Impossible was good, and I didn't really hate "The Untouchables," but I felt it didn't live up to the hype. He's also derivative--I almost always feel like I've seen whatever he's doing before.
So it isn't just women that he treats as empty props. He treats all characters and all storylines as devices, rather than as sources for artistic expression. Even so, he has a lower opinion of women than men. He kills them without hesitation because the character was only created to manipulate emotions in the first place. His female characters almost never have anything to say or mean. They just look pretty.
Most Hollywood films do this to some degree, but it really stands out to me with DePalma. I'm almost always disappointed after watching his films, not because they are badly done, but because they don't do anything.
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