There are legitimate arguments for not showing menstrual blood in the movie, ones that have nothing to do with fears of limiting its potential audience. Ted Lasso Fans Need to Just Accept That the Show Is Bad NowĪ Q&A With the Author Whose Book Is Rocketing up the Charts Thanks to a Tweet From “Bigolas Dickolas”.Netflix’s Cleopatra Has Sparked Furious Controversy. It Is Long Past Time to Retire the Oldest, Dumbest Debate in Literary History If we’ve only just started to show period blood in select programs for adults, maybe it’s a lot to ask in a movie aimed at younger audiences. Then again, unlike Margaret, all of these are shows for adults. A few drops of blood on underwear might even seem tame in comparison. “It’s not gratuitous-arguably it’s not even particularly explicit-but it is menstrual blood on screen in a way that still remains a rarity,” Rosewarne said.
The main character gets her first period, and she’s shown with blood running down her leg. She pointed to a scene in 2020’s The Queen’s Gambit as another notable recent example. “The rise of streaming services means that there are simply more places to take edgier content that would once have been deemed inappropriate for broadcast television,” she said. Rosewarne has noticed this wave of progress. Period blood has occasionally served as the butt of jokes in movies, but as a 2017 piece in the Wrap recounts, it’s only in fairly recent memory that shows like Orange Is the New Black, GLOW, and Broad City have dared to show it in different contexts. This begins to explain all those commercials for menstrual pads that feature a mysterious blue liquid standing in for blood. As easy and obvious a choice as including some blood might seem, I also can’t say I’m surprised it was left out, given a political environment where reproductive functions are treated as a controversial issue rather than an everyday biological fact.
But in the movie, while we do see characters sitting on toilets-and at one point, the camera even inhabits a toilet’s point of view as characters peer down at us-that’s as close as we get. Not a lot-but enough.” It would be a pretty standard adaptation choice to represent this important moment visually, one would think, even if briefly. If you look at the source material, the novel’s depiction of Margaret’s first period, toward the very end of the book, isn’t detailed, but it is matter-of-fact: “I looked down at my underpants and I couldn’t believe it. Almost like a horror movie that goes out of its way not to show the monster at the center of it, Margaret is deliberate about not training the camera on blood in the scenes in which one might expect to see it.
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