I think that it was a bold move to make this one. Mainly because he had to build the whole film from radical feminist theory (which is frequently transphobic) without making it look really bad because then it would make him look anti feministic. So the alternative he found, as i find it, is to slowly transition the essentialist radical feminism to a more performative queer kind of thing. The problem there is that 1) i dont think the film did a excelent job in representing the thought of the radical feminists even though most of the dialogue is composed of exposition and radical feminist rhetoric. I dont think it did a particularly bad job either but the whole porn thing does not make sense. Radical feminists have a very strong opposition to porn and its not just because men are involved in the making. Saying that their subjective view is implicit in the way we see and make porn is more in touch with the actual theory. The reason why i am lingering in this is because the film seems to be a way of trying to bridge the distance between queer and radfem theory and in that i think it underestimates the core disagreements between them. Other than that the film is at times funny and engaging, i had some problems with the soundtrack because i found it to be very boring and stale. Overral it is a fun watch and i hold it in high regard for being as edgy as it is and for trying a lot of things rhetorically.
Review of The Misandrists
