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Does every film now need some anti-male commentary?


Every second film I watch has some 'men are bad' statement to make. I'm beyond fed up of it all.

This film just had to have (SPOILERS BELOW);

- The head chef have a history of pressuring his staff to have sex with him. This lead to the whole 'mans folly' course where all the men get chased and the women sit inside chilling and bonding.

- That old dude who cheated on his wife, he had to be some pervy dude with a daughter watching him masturbate fetish.

- Tyler (Margots date) being a complete asshole. Demeaning her in one scene with her telling him he can't speak to her like that. Felt like a #SlayQueen moment for the misandrist viewers to cheer for her. Also he brought her there knowing she'd be killed, so she got to punch him in the face. The crowd goes wild! #SlayQueen

- You even had the whole Margot being a poor prostitute (that was the implication?) sub-plot. Like Last Night in Soho (2021). Prostitutes are helpless victims of the evils of men now, but on on the other hand some people try tell us that sex workers are stunning and brave and deserve all the respect and rights in the world. So are they fierce and self employed queens or poor 'rape' victims? I'm confused.

- The chefs mother was a victim of domestic abuse.


I swear you need to have this shit in your screenplay to get the film greenlit.

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You know, the only thing that really bothered me and felt forced was the man's folly "he pressured me into having sex with him" crap. Definitely felt like the typical hysterical woke leftist activist statement you just gotta put in there. It doesn't even make sense if you think about it; the woman rejected his advances, yet was okay with killing herself along with everyone else as part of his "masterpiece" in the end? Just god damn leftist nonsense. She wasn't very attractive either, and her "retribution" for his trying to court her seemed rather extreme. Is stabbing a guy in the leg really the same as a man proposition a woman?

Still enjoyed the film despite this stupidity, though.

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