RE: The Last Movie You Watched
November 4, 2019 at 1:50 pm
(This post was last modified: November 4, 2019 at 2:51 pm by Rev. Rye.)
Yesterday, I found out about a short film through Diamanda Hagan, called Pax Masculina. It's basically a dystopian short about a world where the United States has been taken over by a misogynistic totalitarian dictatorship and the suffragettes have turned into a paramilitary force (and are still called suffragettes when NOBODY has the right to vote).
Review:
Actual Short:
In case you're wondering why I put the actual short in hide tags, well, though it seems like it can be easily be treated as a movie about female triumph over misogyny that's just really dropped the ball, this is actually one of those movies that gets more disgusting once you read about it.
Review:
Actual Short:
In case you're wondering why I put the actual short in hide tags, well, though it seems like it can be easily be treated as a movie about female triumph over misogyny that's just really dropped the ball, this is actually one of those movies that gets more disgusting once you read about it.
- Writer/director/producer John Scamehorn has something like 30 sexual harrassment complaints against him, with at least circumstantial evidence of more. This is objectively horrible, but one of my favourite films was directed by a man who's on record as having raped a 13-year-old girl, so, in and of itself, this isn't something that makes me want to not watch films.
- That reading where it's merely a feminist parable that's just incompetent at making its points? Apparently, at one point, he publicised it on Return of Kings with an article called “What the Western World Would Look Like If Women Were Never Granted The Right To Vote." And for those of us who don't know, Return of Kings is the kind of misogynist website where... fun fact: I once looked at it and found this article about Lolita, arguing that Humbert's main problems are actually the few redeeming qualities he had (embellished to make himself look good or not).
- You know how a third of the movie is devoted to a hanging of a resistance leader? That's because it's Scamehorn's big fetish. One of these accusations against him includes, "a large archive of photos of OU students, local actresses and their relatives collected by Scamehorn. Many of the alleged photos are said to be cropped and doctored in a way that it appears the subject is being strangled or hung in a noose."
Comparing the Universal Oneness of All Life to Yo Mama since 2010.
I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.
I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.