Could this work if it was about a man just manipulating and dominating women and then it ends with all the women dead or in jail and him just getting away with killing them and stealing all their money and facing no repercussions whatsoever?
shareThing is in many aspects, from physical to psychological, and even in general rules in terms of how people are treated whether fairly or unfairly, men and women are NOT the same, and there are many differences in situational circumstances that prove this and that no matter how many discussions we have otherwise.
The greatest trick the Devil has ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist!
Yes there are differences between men and women. I don't see those differences as entirely black and white like you seem to (women = good, innocent, victim, justified in using violence. men = bad, villains, cruel, unsympathetic?) That means to you that there should never be a movie about this same topic with a different perspective? A male character cannot be the protagonist if he has female antagonists and has to defeat them? A movie about a woman dominating and destroying men is normal or encouraged but a man manipulating and besting women in a movie is unacceptable? Are we as a society not moving towards embracing feminism and not treating men and women differently based on gender?
shareI didn't mean it necessarily in a sense of men=bad and women=good.
The greatest trick the Devil has ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist!
I also at times attempted to look at WHY it is seen that way rather than just saying it is seen that way, add to it a line about a double standard then put a full stop.
Unless there is some kind of certain truth about how society isn't being correct even in this kind of case where it in general attempts to fight for and believe in justice.
The greatest trick the Devil has ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist!
2 andrewrrr - have you seen "Disclosure" (1994) with Michael Douglas and Demi Moore? That film indeed for instance shows that kind of double standard you're talking about in several ways.
For one, in it, Demi Moore sexually harrasses Michael Douglas' character and even performs sexual acts on him when he resists and says "no", which may even be qualified as you know what. (Would you classify what she did to him in that movie as gender reversal r@pe by the way?)
And then in the end when he manages to break free, she yells a death threat at him as he runs off.
If it was the other way around, she might have been destroyed by it herself and this type of thing would've been bad in and of itself. She might even be seen justified in killing him as a result or even in self defense during or shortly after the fact.
Yet in his case, the fact that she did it to him when he didn't want to have it done to him isn't even his worst problem in the whole case scenario. (I know she was an attractive woman and they were even lovers in the past, but still... She did it to him when he didn't want it.)
She accuses HIM of sexually harrassing HER and threatens his career and marriage in the process, so now he has to prove his INNOCENCE and fight to keep his job.
It would've been literally her worst nightmare if he did it to her, but in the course of the film, the fact that she did it to her isn't his worst problem, but its the fact that she is saying that he did it to her.
Interestingly enough, even this movie, not to mention the fact that it was released the same year, made me think of "Disclosure" to an extent and how a woman can manipulate a man and there being double standards.
With regards to "Disclosure". He doesn't take revenge on her by the way, he only manages to get her fired from work and leave him alone, so I guess we are to take it he somehow healed from that sexual harassment/sexual assault part of the incident, you don't even see him go to the hospital to treat himself from any signs of sexual injuries or post traumatic stress disorder. Or stay at home to do it via books and loving and caring relatives and medicine if he is embarrassed to go to the hospital and tell the 'truth'.
The greatest trick the Devil has ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist!