Feminism, Food Fights and Ferality in Charli XCX’s ‘brat’ (2024) and Věra Chytilová’s ‘Daisies’ (1966)

In 1966, Czech director Věra Chytilová released Daisies, a radical film about two young women who, upon declaring the world corrupt, decide they may as well be corrupt too. By 1968, it was censored by the Czechoslovak government — ironically proving Chytilová’s point: the world had indeed gone bad, and patriarchy was at the heart of it.