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- 2018
- Netflix
- 1 h 38 m
- 2018
- Netflix
- 1 h 38 m
Summary A shameless chauvinist gets a taste of his own medicine when he wakes up in a world dominated by women and locks horns with a powerful female author.
Written By: Eléonore Pourriat, Ariane Fert
- 2018
- Netflix
- 1 h 38 m
- 2018
- Netflix
- 1 h 38 m
I Am Not an Easy Man
Metascore
Available after 4 critic reviews
7.3
Summary A shameless chauvinist gets a taste of his own medicine when he wakes up in a world dominated by women and locks horns with a powerful female author.
Written By: Eléonore Pourriat, Ariane Fert
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I Am Not an Easy Man works, an over-reaching satire that gets at the horrors women face in a world where they don’t have equality or the entitled initiative to succeed and a film that suggests God help us if the shoe is ever on the other foot.
As it happens, this movie is an expansion of Ms. Pourriat’s 2010 short film, “Oppressed Majority,” which was a punchier, and not particularly comedic, allegory of sexual assault. That picture can be found on YouTube; I don’t think it’s good either, but it’s more genuinely thought-provoking than its expansion.
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7.3
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7.3
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~ This should be a movie to be seen by all adolescents, and especially all males in government in the United States. I am an educated Caucasian male, and even I did not realize the psychological toll of the unreasonable demands on women just to BE WOMEN in 2018 society. This is a great movie that could have even gone further in dramatizing a reversal of male and female stereotypes. This movie was fun, painful, and eye-opening. The ending was totally a surprise, no spoiler alert. Just see it in French or dubbed in your favourite language. Cheers, DAVEDJ ~
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Stumbled on this on Netflix. This is billed on most sites as a "romantic comedy" - but this is much smarter, more nuanced, and better acted than a run-of-the-mill rom-com. It is not a slapstick/goofy comedy. It has real humor, but more ****'s humor found in the background of the scenes, sets, and the extras... it's humor found in the mundane - the best form of social commentary. It's a credit to the writer (she is also the director) and female lead. As a woman, I can honestly say I was shocked at how seeing the daily lives of women appear when you swap genders... it's hard to explain, but this was as eye-opening for me as a woman to see my daily routines, struggles, and feelings play out in a way that seemed absurd in many cases - things that, when you live it every day, you don't notice. Of course hair and grooming is low-hanging fruit for any gender-switch comedy, but in having to explain to my husband the subtext to one character's "manicured" chest hair, which is ridiculous as presented - made me realize just how ridiculous it is for women. But it is also simple things like perfume advertising featuring sexualized young men, or TV in the house where the tv show they're watching while talking shows the camera linger uncomfortably over a young male body... it's cringe-worthy, and made me realize how desensitized i've become to those same tactics when it's women that are the object of the lens. I will also never look at a man in short pants the same way again!
On the flip side, I appreciate that throughout the film, the case is quietly being made that the best path is not a binary one - it's moderation, collaboration, respect, and self-awareness. A young waiter in one scene sports a "The Future if MALE" tee-shirt... reminding us that simply 'turning the tables' and flipping the power balance won't solve anything.
There has been a crisis in the last century, that's seen society tell men that having warm, affectionate, emotionally-complex relationships with other men is at best not masculine. I appreciated the director showing the sadness and longing of a broken friendship between men, without playing it for laughs. Depression driven by lonliness among adult men is at an all-time high, and denied access to loving, supportive social networks it's easy to see why.
I docked a point because i felt the opening 10-15 minutes could've been tighter and felt more like the "What Women Want" sensibility - which isn't the vibe of the movie overall. But it's a day later and I'm still thinking about it, so clearly it's not a huge issue.
The final scene is a twist, and further separates the film from others of its supposed genre. Really well done.
Here's the best endorsement I can give: My husband came into the room halfway through, and sat to watch... now he wants to see the full movie again, this weekend. We ended up discussing and debating - and, honestly, me explaining certain things that were represented that he missed - for the rest of the night. Name an Adam Sandler/Jennifer Aniston rom-com that can do that.
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O fato é que o filme não cria nenhuma situação, apenas as repete, mas com a figura masculina em seu protagonismo. Há diversos cenários no longa, e em cada um deles há espaço para o machismo, que aqui é tratado de forma natural. Já o feminismo é invertido para o “masculismo”, que é ridicularizado de qualquer forma. De fato, quando assistimos ao filme, não conseguimos pensar em homens nas situações em que Damien se encontra, só há como entendê-las quando imaginamos uma mulher em seu lugar. O longa só peca no fato de não explicar bem o motivo desta sociedade ser como ela é. Também não mostra os outros países e como eles se desenvolvem a partir deste modelo social, além de ter um final um tanto quanto abstrato. É sim um dos melhores filmes de 2018, e há a necessidade de uma divulgação mais forte sobre a história. Crítica by Saga Das Músicas
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The feminist message of the movie (which is overwhelmingly the most attractive aspect of it) is lost by the director's apparent lack of ability not to reinforce sexist gender roles. While the idea of "a man suffers the injustices women go through" works fine for a short film, the movie's extended runtime only exposes its flaws. The movie doesn't offer any food for thought, it only validates the ideas of people who already lean into feminist ideals, while never really challenging the views of those we want to change. A sexist man will only come out of this movie thinking "So women are dominant if they act like men". This issue is not helped by the basic romcom relationship the movie pushes where, in a stereotypical manner, the woman has to sacrifice parts of her life to be with the man who, at most, will change his mind.
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