Daisies

Marie 1 and Marie 2 don't give a hoot about traditional morals and social norms and seduce the men who are attracted to their carefree exuberance - mostly older men - with ease. They prey on their suitors' purses and simply try to enjoy any fun that comes their way. Their escapades are a game played by the two boastful Maries as they plunge blindly from one adventure to the next. But their "depraved" nature - as highlighted at the end by a moral underlined by Vera Chytilova - is just an innocent rebellion against the backdrop of a troubled modern world. The protagonists of "Sedmikrasky" - embodied by the amateur actresses Jitka Cerhova and Ivana Karbanova - serve primarily as a demonstration of female liberation in the sense of the feminist currents of the time. The two Maries stand - albeit in an extreme form - for women struggling to survive in a man's world.