They should rename this movie...

Or "This is what feminists think of men"

Actually, they should rename it "Feminist Revenge Fantasy". Of course, the revenge doesn't make a whole lot of sense, but that hasn't stopped feminists from wanting to stick it to "men".

I don't necessarily think this movie was saying all or even many women are like that.

Just like say Gaspar Noe's "Irreversible" for instance wasn't saying all homosexual men are evil.

It looks like some people are trying to take this movie too seriously, literally and thinking that rather than looking at a specific situation in its own movie like sides, it is implying something about it being always like this in reality whereas...

No movie, except for either documentaries or those based on true stories, is ever truly realistic. A film isn't a statistic on one or more certain aspects of life either.

Then again - although Die Hard for instance IS considered an excellent movie, what are the odds of one man taking on a group of evil terrorists and surviving just like that single handedly happening in real life? Far from likely, I believe.

I'm not even a big fan of Knock Knock at all - but I just don't see it as either MRA type of thing or an apology for real issues like some do. And if a lot of OTHER people REALLY see it all that way etc, as in, they will see it and think this is how the world is, I believe it is a bit of a separate issue to address on a different day altogether rather than just putting all the eggs into one basket.

Oh and I know of course that everything to do with sexual violence etc is indeed more serious, but beyond of course obvious examples of movies looking at the issue separately from a serious perspective, we've had movies looking at it just as seriously as it did at other forms of violence including murder, and sometimes, punishing the guilty offender in revenge forms wasn't its main point like that - remember Kubrick's "A Clockwork Orange" (1971) for instance? Oh and in that classic, they even made the lead character Alex De Large into a sympathetic figure due to that experiment he endured in an attempt to be cured, and this is despite him committing multiple acts of rape, murder, beatings etc throughout the movie - and that film is considered by many to be arguably the greatest film of all time.

Yet in this day and age, the above issue in particular cannot be discussed without constantly referencing feminism and MRAs etc and any movie that kind of includes this from different perspectives gets massive controversial arguments. (I'm not saying I disagree with all of this necessarily, but the constant conflicting manner in which these discussions crop up among the civilized people have kinda grown tiring on me. Why can't we look at it all as SIMPLE HUMAN BEINGS like we can on other serious issues as well?)

And on the subject of female villains etc - we've also seen them plenty of times in films before. But people in this case rarely complain and go - it is the MEN in real life that are the real violent beasts etc.

Rarely have and do we seen women committing sexual offenses in films against men, but in some movies, we did see that also, so it isn't too terribly new either. (Remember the film "Thursday" (1998)? How many audiences in late 90s that saw the film started shouting "Women do NOT do this, it is men that are the perpetrators of sexual violence" and put the film down strictly because of that scene in it?) Yes the traditional standard examples in real life of women being victims of men are indeed prevalent and have been throughout history, but does that mean if a movie shows an opposite side and focuses on it, it REALLY distracts from this issue - and is it even MOVIES' JOB to sort such problems out?

After all - no movie has ever been able to reduce other forms of violence including murder in real life EITHER and we have accepted that form of violence as entertainment as well even if we were still horrified in films depicting killings of innocents. (And to some people, and I actually have known them in real life too, violence that involves killings IS a serious and sensitive issue and many people can't watch it well in movies.)

And where are the conflicting emotions for THEM?

(Heck, I heard how some great movie classics have actually led to copycat violence in real life as well - but are we now going to call for all violent movies to be banned like that then?)

P.S. I am amazed sometimes that humanity hasn't killed itself already in the name of equality, as many people believe that NOTHING will save us anymore as we always fight and conflict and humiliate with and each other and that death is actually a peaceful solution to this matter.

The greatest trick the Devil has ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist!