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Tell Me Lies (2022)
Intriguing but not spicey
The plot is good. It was hard to follow who was who at the beginning as we start with them eight years in the future and then we go back to their college days and pick up the peices of what they've all experienced together.
The girls are all younger than the guys and are somewhat preyed upon sexually. However, this is never addressed as a problem. There is a scene that borders on assualt, with a girl saying she's not comfortable with the sex she's having, but the guy says 'wait I'm almost done"... she basically just complies with him and is used. But this is never addressed again in the show. I think this is characteristic of the year 2007. Consent isn't really talked about.
The sex scenes are kind of bad. They lack any real desire with no foreplay and end up looking rough and the girls are never seen to "finish" but every guy does (with a grunt and then collapses on the girl that he's just used). Again, this is characteristic of the year the show is set in.
A season two is needed to clear up remaining questions.
Fair Play (2023)
Gets better at the end
I could see the mysognistic attitudes right off the bat. Being called the B word by her boss. Going to a strip club with male colleagues. The hedge firm acting as a boys club.
The fragile masculinity of the boyfriend really shows the point of this movie. Men think they are owed promotions over women colleagues and throw tantrums when things don't go their way. When Emily thinks her boyfriend has been promoted, she is happy for him, but he refuses to be happy for her.
In the end the sexual violence is what drives home the narrative. He thinks he is putting her in her place, good for one thing, because she's a woman and he can use his physical strength against her.
Summary: Got better towards the end.
A World Without Down's Syndrome? (2016)
One sided viewpoint
The storyteller is one sided as her son has a mild case of downs syndrome. She is very fortunate to be wealthy and married and able to give her son the best life she can. She didn't even attempt to include people who are struggling to provide for children with disabilities. She is anti choice and wants screening programs abolished and women forced to carry unwanted pregnancies. She didn't choose her son either, his diagnosis was given 10 days after his birth, funny how she makes it sound like she willingly chose him. She was thrust into this life without a choice because her child was already born, and she wants others to have no choice too.
Thankfully some guests she interviewed mentioned choice, unfortunately she shuts down the conversation rather quickly.
There is no discussion on how mothers/parents lives change after having a down syndrome child. We all know many women end up single when having a disabled child. But... as this woman has a very one sided shut viewpoint, none of this is mentioned.
Profile (2018)
Quite an entertaining film
I thought this would be about an overworked journalist who refuses to understand how young women could be brainwashed. Instead we see first hand how easy it is to be manipulated into circumstances and how fast it can happen.
The man in the film was a good fit, very handsome and masculine. As a viewer I was falling for him, exactly like the 38 year old journalist woman.
My criticism is sometimes it was hard to follow if something was happening in real time or if someone was searching back through the computer files and watching the recordings much later after it occurred. Sometimes things went too fast.
Good on Paper (2021)
A good movie that is not what I was expecting
I clicked on this expecting a typical rom-com type movie. This movie is not like that. I did really like the whole atmosphere of thinking is he a good guy and she's being too critical of him or is he not what he seems?
It started to hit hard when we begun to see the truth and knowing that she should have stuck with her gut feeling and not believed the old, "someone is better than no-one". I can relate to this in my own life after having a very similar experience with a man.
I liked the kind of twist at the end where he attempts to get justice for what the women have done to him.
I don't remember the movie being too vulgar either.