While the men's rights interviewees are polite and soft-spoken, Jaye offers rabid "feminists" spewing venomous curse words in contrast. She seems to accept everything her men's rights advocates say in The Red Pill but doesn't question what they write when her camera isn't trained on them. The information that documentarian Cassie Jaye omits here speaks volumes. This documentary tries to masquerade as a serious and fair look at the men's rights movement, but it doesn't give all the necessary facts. Jaye's response to most of this is a renunciation of her previous status as a "feminist." Show more Plus, men now attend college less often than women, and those who attend graduate even less often than that. Their sentences are longer than convicted women's sentences, too. Friendly, warm, and polite, they cite statistics showing that men die younger than women, visit the doctor less frequently, become addicted more often, and are arrested, convicted, imprisoned, and executed more often. The MRM leaders Jaye presents are generally soft-spoken, likable, and articulate espousers of the claim that men are disadvantaged in society. These accounts seem to be valid individual examples of true injustices, but notably absent from the film are comparisons to equally disturbing stories from women about abusive men and social systems long rigged to favor men. Some men get a raw deal from the justice system while trying to get custody of their children, and other innocent guys can't get the authorities to recognize that they've been battered and sexually assaulted by women. In Cassie Jaye's documentary about the MRM, the advocates and leaders she interviews give moving examples of real-life individual instances of unfairness visited on good men.
#THE RED PILL DOCUMENTARY MOVIE#
The term THE RED PILL has been adopted by the men's rights movement (MRM) from the Matrix movie to signal the choice we have between seeing the world as it really is - in this vision, a hotbed of discrimination against men - or taking the blue pill, which supposedly offers the blissful but false view that ignores terrible prejudice causing men's widespread suffering. You didn't like what Cassie Jaye is trying to do in the film, tried to present your opinion as a film review and thought we wouldn't notice. I think your review is not a review of the film, it's just a review (a restatement, rather) of your own opinion.
Luckily, judging from the Kids Say section of the reviews, they seem to have more sense than the "expert reviewer".
"What does it mean to be a feminist? Why do you think so many people misunderstand or misuse the term?" It reminds me of some communist jokes from Russia I once heard, in the vein of "Who is your role model and why Stalin?" - in other words, why suggest a discussion or debate with children when you've already decided on the answer? Outside of the issue at hand (feminism), I cannot think of a more patronising approach to one's own children. Or is it just that you can't stand anyone voicing any criticism against the feminist movement?īut your questions for discussion section towers it all. I have a 5 year old daughter, by the way, so I am deeply personally invested in ensuring women are safe and are not prevented from achieving because of who they are (as you can see, one can actually care for both).Īlso, you cannot actually make a film and "give all the necessary facts" - this would make the film last longer than the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Not doing so does not negate the existence of women's issues - it simply means that issues for men and women coexist and are not mutually exclusive, which is what your review appears to imply. If one makes a film about men's rights, they are not obligated to have to talk about women's right. Do you really think it is in any way balanced to write a review peppered with words such as "venomous", "rabid" and "masquerade"? I find it quite bizarre that you think that Cassie Jaye "doesn't question" when the entire film presents her struggling with her own transformation - what do you think was meant by her saying "there is still some doubt" at the end of the film? This is a wonderful and balanced documentary and I think whoever put together the "expert review" on this site should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves.
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