This was an obviously misogynistic movie. If you can't see it you don't know what the word means. I'm not a woman, I'm not insecure, but I know crap when I see it.
Here's a definition from Wikipedia, since you obviously need it:
"Misogyny can be manifested in numerous ways, including sexual discrimination, denigration of women, violence against women, and sexual objectification of women."
You're own reaction to my use of the word does, however, show how insecure you are, as does your laughable and weepy mention of misandry. How many advertisements have you seen with groups of naked men? How about groups of naked women? How often is the main purpose of women in mainstream TV or film is to be an object that needs to be rescued or controlled by the man? How often was the only purpose of this film to give the makers excuses to show long scenes of women being dominated, humiliated, and broken?
I'll lay it out for you.
1) This movie has no story. The 'story' in this film is simply an excuse to link multiple scenes of women being tortured. The only male victims we really see are the husband who is killed instantly, and the idiotic subplot about the cop who is framed. A subplot, by the way, which is so badly thought out and written, and clinically shown that it only makes the misogyny more apparent.
2) We hardly ever see the killer, this is so we are not distracted because every shot of the tapes is designed to give the filmmakers the excuse to make us focus on the women.
3) The only woman we really get to know is the lady the killer captured and tortured and broke. Her only purpose is to show us how the killer controls her, dominates her, and subjugates her. She has no will of her own, she has no purpose but to show how powerful the male killer is.
4) Unlike, lets say, Silence of the Lambs, where the purpose of the story is to show us how Buffalo Bill's objectification of women is a tool that allows us to understand what a monster he is, the Poughkeepsie killer's treatment of women is to show us how masterful and dominating and controlling he is. Yes, sure, he's clearly insane, but the whole film is designed to show us what a brilliant, dominating spirit he is. Something they even imply only occurred once he made his decision to start victimizing women.
5) The film makes a great effort to lionize the killer. To impress us with his idiotically impossible brilliance. The hero of the movie is a man who does nothing but dominate, humiliate, break and torture women. When your protagonist is defined by only those things, the tale itself is misogynistic.
Each one of these examples, are perfect illustrations of misogyny. Had there been a decent story to make these linked scenes worthwhile, or a memorable well written killer, or even a reasonable and partially intelligent denouement, then it could be, perhaps, forgiven. Lacking that, there is no other way to describe this steaming pile than as a misogynistic piece of crap.
If you don't agree that's your opinion, but your opinion would be wrong.
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