I was very excited to see that this movie was a documentary. How could I not be impressed with the social media around the likes of Rumer Willis ' campaign to go topless in New York City, Miley Cyrus ' sponsorship of the film through her partnership with Esco, and the endorsements of numerous other pro-feminist celebrities? This is not a film to my utter disappointment, but rather a dramatization of the start of the revolution. Hey, I felt exactly the way you've got to feel right now.The cause she supports in Esco's defense is worth the buzz surrounding this film. Females should be as free to go topless as men, without penalty, whose bare nipples can be displayed in all 50 states. Instagram and Facebook have completely unfair censorship policies against the naked female nipple, although similar women's sexual images and men's identical ones are all right. Unfortunately, in this disjointed, ridiculous little indie film, all this was not well expressed.Although the movement Free the Nipple is only two years old, the movie presents this story as an epic saga, a story about a group of women battling the patriarchy and eventually taking unfair laws and digital policies down. Nonetheless, their battle is still going on, and in this state, although they have brought awareness to the issue, it hasn't changed much. A young drama will make a TV movie better than the indie market. The characters are bland, there is real breast censorship in several scenes, and then none in other scenes, there is a lot of filler, and the ending is anticlimactic, because with characters like these, whose ending should take care to begin with.I emphasize that even if this movie had a bigger budget, better characters, and a less haphazard way to relay information, this movie would not work yet. It's not a movie, and it's a waste of everyone's time for that simple reason. These films fuel people who oppose or devalue the struggle for equality. Not to say this movie is disappointing, it's just needless and misses the point. Hopefully there will be a serious documentary film from the seedling of this one.
19 Reviews
Making a clean breast of things...
natashabowiepinky13 December 2014
Warning: Spoilers
Now, I believe in fighting for a cause. Abolishing child poverty, I'll be right there in the trenches with you. Banning nuclear arms, I'll stand outside a government building for hours, waving placards. Freedom of speech? Need you ask? But campaigning for the right for women to go topless publicly? THIS is the basis for a feature film? SERIOUSLY?!
Forget about the absolute chaos that would ensue from the thousands of pervs that would actively be pursuing them just for a picture or a quick ogle. And leave aside the concern that no-one wants to be caught between a mass of jigging body parts on the tube en route to work. Let's just focus on the fact they've made a MOTION PICTURE based on this flimsy premise alone... And treat it with the same solemnity as they would if it were about World War II.
So, we get quotes from luminaries varying from Gandhi to Larry Flynt, plenty of philosophising about how America loves violence but yet is remarkably puritanical about nudity, and plenty of girls running round brassiere-free... All in a good cause, of course. This footage will be used to CHANGE THE PLANET, and won't just be jerking material for some sad little virgin in his parent's basement...
I actually thought at first this was going to be a documentary... But when the cast started to try and act, I had a sinking feeling... Which unfortunately, stayed with me till the end. It might be 'Based On A True Story', but this kind of script has been rehashed, redone and recycled to such an extent it may as well form it's own genre.
There's the ragtag band of misfits coming together for a common cause, they start off small but gradually get larger, then comes a minor setback which they navigate with difficulty... Followed by in-fighting, bickering... Which is also resolved eventually with a metaphorical GROUP HUG. Then, just when things are looking up... Then arrives the MAJOR crisis which threatens to end the entire movement. But not to worry... Thanks to the magic of bumper stickers, posters and endless montages, a happy conclusion is inevitable.
The performances are amateurish to say the least, but I'm sure they weren't expecting any Oscars from this project. The attempts at comparing this 'struggle' to great travesties of the past is a LOT more embarrassing than walking around Times Square with your breasts hanging out. The use of the annoying theme song 'Free The Nipple' throughout is repetitive and distracting. Oh, and there's a blink-and-you'll-miss-it lesbian kiss between the two main protagonists. I'm not sure why they stuck that in there, since it doesn't lead to anything and is never referenced again. Target audience, anyone?
It's fantastic you believe in something, it really is. Go shout about it from the rooftops. Harangue them on the streets. Spread as much propaganda about it as you want. Just don't bother making a rather pointless, sterile film about the subject. No-one watching it is going to be converted to your way of thinking, one way or the other. Perhaps the money spent making it would have been better put towards trying to establish more nudist beaches. There, you can swing your bits to your hearts content... And not cause pile-ups or waste police time in the process. You know it makes sense. 4/10
Forget about the absolute chaos that would ensue from the thousands of pervs that would actively be pursuing them just for a picture or a quick ogle. And leave aside the concern that no-one wants to be caught between a mass of jigging body parts on the tube en route to work. Let's just focus on the fact they've made a MOTION PICTURE based on this flimsy premise alone... And treat it with the same solemnity as they would if it were about World War II.
So, we get quotes from luminaries varying from Gandhi to Larry Flynt, plenty of philosophising about how America loves violence but yet is remarkably puritanical about nudity, and plenty of girls running round brassiere-free... All in a good cause, of course. This footage will be used to CHANGE THE PLANET, and won't just be jerking material for some sad little virgin in his parent's basement...
I actually thought at first this was going to be a documentary... But when the cast started to try and act, I had a sinking feeling... Which unfortunately, stayed with me till the end. It might be 'Based On A True Story', but this kind of script has been rehashed, redone and recycled to such an extent it may as well form it's own genre.
There's the ragtag band of misfits coming together for a common cause, they start off small but gradually get larger, then comes a minor setback which they navigate with difficulty... Followed by in-fighting, bickering... Which is also resolved eventually with a metaphorical GROUP HUG. Then, just when things are looking up... Then arrives the MAJOR crisis which threatens to end the entire movement. But not to worry... Thanks to the magic of bumper stickers, posters and endless montages, a happy conclusion is inevitable.
The performances are amateurish to say the least, but I'm sure they weren't expecting any Oscars from this project. The attempts at comparing this 'struggle' to great travesties of the past is a LOT more embarrassing than walking around Times Square with your breasts hanging out. The use of the annoying theme song 'Free The Nipple' throughout is repetitive and distracting. Oh, and there's a blink-and-you'll-miss-it lesbian kiss between the two main protagonists. I'm not sure why they stuck that in there, since it doesn't lead to anything and is never referenced again. Target audience, anyone?
It's fantastic you believe in something, it really is. Go shout about it from the rooftops. Harangue them on the streets. Spread as much propaganda about it as you want. Just don't bother making a rather pointless, sterile film about the subject. No-one watching it is going to be converted to your way of thinking, one way or the other. Perhaps the money spent making it would have been better put towards trying to establish more nudist beaches. There, you can swing your bits to your hearts content... And not cause pile-ups or waste police time in the process. You know it makes sense. 4/10
It's unbelievable...
krisridge19855 January 2015
Anyone would think in certain parts of the world women aren't being, sold as sex slaves, beaten, raped, stoned, allowed any freedoms. DAILY. If women seriously cared about equal rights you would think they would put energy into preventing these things rather than exercising their right to bare nipples. It's sad to see women plights in modern countries incomparable to other countries where culture and religion are ruling negating human rights.
Oh well women keep up the good fight.
I guess your equal rights voice is watered down to nudity, when the real volume could be found elsewhere.
I wonder if a woman who has had acid thrown on her would trade places with any of these oppressed and tortured women in the film?
Oh well women keep up the good fight.
I guess your equal rights voice is watered down to nudity, when the real volume could be found elsewhere.
I wonder if a woman who has had acid thrown on her would trade places with any of these oppressed and tortured women in the film?
Massive hypocrisy
krool196930 September 2016
To be fair I turned this movie off almost at once. If you want to make a film about women's rights to be legally equal to men, and you title your film after a political movement to show breasts are not offensive, sexual or shameful you don't blur out the women's breasts. By doing so you are sending the exact opposite message. By blurring out the breasts this film is saying that they should stay covered because it might offend someone.
This film is a waste of time and money. It works in direct opposition to women's rights.
If you want to make a film like this you must have the courage to actually free the nipple. Otherwise, don't bother.
This film is a waste of time and money. It works in direct opposition to women's rights.
If you want to make a film like this you must have the courage to actually free the nipple. Otherwise, don't bother.
Self indulgent garbage
joeponto14 June 2015
The people exclaiming this was somehow about more than just the right to have bare breasts in public - where exactly was that in the plot? You, like the movie, are romanticizing and over thinking very petty things.
I think it's a great cause - women should definitely be allowed to walk around topless in any state of this nation. However, to say that they were somehow pushing for some grander agenda that went as far as being called a revolution? Come on. Their agenda didn't even register as a microscopic piece of dust on the radar of "revolution".
There wasn't much of a plot to this story, other than "let's get super insanely cool looking shots, mostly in slow-mo, of us girls looking insanely cool and counter-culture like", to that end, they did that in spades, and is the only reason I gave this film one more star than 1.
There is a tiny love story between the two protagonists, which never exactly reaches an arc, and is just forgotten about by the end of the film - there were too many shots of women looking empowered and cool in slow motion to be had, I guess.
The whole film is just a self indulgent "look how cool/edgy I am" montage, with barely any kind of a story behind it. Three of the main characters you sort of connect with, and the rest are almost non-existent.
The funniest part about the whole story, is that they never even achieved any of their goals, but the ending ends like they indeed created some sort of cultural revolution. No, you just wasted a bunch of money that was invested in you, by spray painting and stickering public property. No legislation was changed, no social movement started to gain momentum. If I had invested money in those girls, I would be pretty angry - just like whoever invested money in this worthless film.
I think it's a great cause - women should definitely be allowed to walk around topless in any state of this nation. However, to say that they were somehow pushing for some grander agenda that went as far as being called a revolution? Come on. Their agenda didn't even register as a microscopic piece of dust on the radar of "revolution".
There wasn't much of a plot to this story, other than "let's get super insanely cool looking shots, mostly in slow-mo, of us girls looking insanely cool and counter-culture like", to that end, they did that in spades, and is the only reason I gave this film one more star than 1.
There is a tiny love story between the two protagonists, which never exactly reaches an arc, and is just forgotten about by the end of the film - there were too many shots of women looking empowered and cool in slow motion to be had, I guess.
The whole film is just a self indulgent "look how cool/edgy I am" montage, with barely any kind of a story behind it. Three of the main characters you sort of connect with, and the rest are almost non-existent.
The funniest part about the whole story, is that they never even achieved any of their goals, but the ending ends like they indeed created some sort of cultural revolution. No, you just wasted a bunch of money that was invested in you, by spray painting and stickering public property. No legislation was changed, no social movement started to gain momentum. If I had invested money in those girls, I would be pretty angry - just like whoever invested money in this worthless film.
They're free and men don't know it.
JohnDeSando23 December 2014
"Scientists now believe that the primary biological function of breasts is to make males stupid." Dave Berry
Fighting for freedom of speech is good anytime, and fighting for the right of women to bare their breasts in public as men can do is a pleasant part of that. Make that a comedy, as in Free the Nipple, and you get a sophomoric study in youthful idealism without the SNL wit.
Nipple is hardly serious when compared with other issues like abortion or equal pay. Based on true events, Free the Nipple humorously depicts the mass movement of topless women coming to NYC with the usual movement tropes and not an impressive screenplay.
It's as if the smartest, most beautiful girls in senior class adopted a project that gave them a chance to have a jolly Glee-like production without the singing. The high-pitched voices, attention from males, and clueless but sincere strategizing seem all too pat while the cause itself is flimsy.
After all, most of the time I felt the police busted them for disturbing the peace and not for baring breasts, which is legal in NYC. Nowhere in the film is there a cogent description of what they were doing or what they hoped to achieve. Still, it's an amusing attempt to balance the books, or breasts, with men.
"It's my body. And I like my body. And I like my breasts. And no, they're not fake." Lindsey Lohan
Fighting for freedom of speech is good anytime, and fighting for the right of women to bare their breasts in public as men can do is a pleasant part of that. Make that a comedy, as in Free the Nipple, and you get a sophomoric study in youthful idealism without the SNL wit.
Nipple is hardly serious when compared with other issues like abortion or equal pay. Based on true events, Free the Nipple humorously depicts the mass movement of topless women coming to NYC with the usual movement tropes and not an impressive screenplay.
It's as if the smartest, most beautiful girls in senior class adopted a project that gave them a chance to have a jolly Glee-like production without the singing. The high-pitched voices, attention from males, and clueless but sincere strategizing seem all too pat while the cause itself is flimsy.
After all, most of the time I felt the police busted them for disturbing the peace and not for baring breasts, which is legal in NYC. Nowhere in the film is there a cogent description of what they were doing or what they hoped to achieve. Still, it's an amusing attempt to balance the books, or breasts, with men.
"It's my body. And I like my body. And I like my breasts. And no, they're not fake." Lindsey Lohan
Good Idea Bad Execution No Wonder Why This Has Such A Low Rating
FilmMan474 June 2015
Warning: Spoilers
i am not hating on this film i liked it but in parts women in films nude look awesome but there is a line,boundary & difference between real life & art,many things are wrong with this film first of all the director of this film launched some campaign as this film was not allowed to release few reason were that it raised huge debate on topics like censorship laws,rights of the women,media control,war & politics.
when you watch this film you will see why this was such a great idea executed badly no wonder it's got such a low rating here i mean the characters in this film talk about censorship laws & how governments show violence on TV,kids play video games & Hollywood makes films & heroes win by killing the enemies & war is more obscene then sex etc.
now at this point i do agree with these people its understandable & quite possibly the only scene that makes scenes & why so many things are wrong in this world but guess what here is the main problem these characters are focused on one subject that is quite idiotic honestly i mean who would launch a campaign to just want people to free roam crowded streets of New York now lets just forget this film for little while let me tell all of you why the police arrests nude women & put a fine on them the reason is my friends this type of nonsense is not tolerable & it violates a certain code of conduct in the law i was just reading here on the boards someone said that it is legal in Canada since 90s i don't know about that but here is the thing in the city when you walk around naked the first thing other person going to think about you is either you escaped from the mental hospital or you are a beggar that have no money for some clothes.
what the hell was going on this film is a proof these guys were confused & tried to add so many topics in one film & failed hard simply embarrassing themselves here they talk about the MPAA or why women with breasts that appear nude on TV get censored wow these guys must have never heard about porn or some famous women like Shannon Tweed,Pamela Anderson & Jeena Jameson.
this movie is dumb no sane person would agree with them the new york police department & the laws in united states or anywhere around the world that arrest these people are doing the right thing i mean whats next these guys are gonna do involve children into this etc or what this is so weird and this film is unnecessary.
OK why this is only for women then why it is not OK for men to wave around their junk because no one would dare doing a stunt like that those who have attempted it are behind bars in jail houses.
the funny thing is this film tries to send out a message that in the name of freedom of speech it is OK to just enter anywhere naked including big corporate financial buildings and asking appointment of some business magnet like Donal Trump is definitely OK by any standard.
can you believe it if some women like that wants to meet the president while in naked state it would be so awkward & irony is these filmmakers were expecting some academy award for this nonsense.
story:just where is the plot of this film it is just a documentary explaining how some bunch of women will run around naked in the city in the climax breaking the limits created by religion & media in the end they do for few seconds but other then that whole film is filled with pointless dialogs & forget the cast everyone is a waste this is just a strip club fantasy these people wanted to enjoy on the big level.
to put it simply in the last i have to say this film is made for people who live in jungle & out of curiosity why are these topless women interested in only crowded places they could have chose any other place around the country i bet if they did it in front of the white house then damn all hell would have break loose.
basically this film is just a wrong take on feminism it completely kills it women are equal to men & real women will never like this type of film i mean their body is not a public property this film is idiotic at so many levels a naked women does not qualify equality among gender.
Overall Free The Nipple 2014 is a film that insults intelligence i have said it previously i am going to say it again i am not hating on this film i liked it but in parts & for some comedy my rating is 3/10.
when you watch this film you will see why this was such a great idea executed badly no wonder it's got such a low rating here i mean the characters in this film talk about censorship laws & how governments show violence on TV,kids play video games & Hollywood makes films & heroes win by killing the enemies & war is more obscene then sex etc.
now at this point i do agree with these people its understandable & quite possibly the only scene that makes scenes & why so many things are wrong in this world but guess what here is the main problem these characters are focused on one subject that is quite idiotic honestly i mean who would launch a campaign to just want people to free roam crowded streets of New York now lets just forget this film for little while let me tell all of you why the police arrests nude women & put a fine on them the reason is my friends this type of nonsense is not tolerable & it violates a certain code of conduct in the law i was just reading here on the boards someone said that it is legal in Canada since 90s i don't know about that but here is the thing in the city when you walk around naked the first thing other person going to think about you is either you escaped from the mental hospital or you are a beggar that have no money for some clothes.
what the hell was going on this film is a proof these guys were confused & tried to add so many topics in one film & failed hard simply embarrassing themselves here they talk about the MPAA or why women with breasts that appear nude on TV get censored wow these guys must have never heard about porn or some famous women like Shannon Tweed,Pamela Anderson & Jeena Jameson.
this movie is dumb no sane person would agree with them the new york police department & the laws in united states or anywhere around the world that arrest these people are doing the right thing i mean whats next these guys are gonna do involve children into this etc or what this is so weird and this film is unnecessary.
OK why this is only for women then why it is not OK for men to wave around their junk because no one would dare doing a stunt like that those who have attempted it are behind bars in jail houses.
the funny thing is this film tries to send out a message that in the name of freedom of speech it is OK to just enter anywhere naked including big corporate financial buildings and asking appointment of some business magnet like Donal Trump is definitely OK by any standard.
can you believe it if some women like that wants to meet the president while in naked state it would be so awkward & irony is these filmmakers were expecting some academy award for this nonsense.
story:just where is the plot of this film it is just a documentary explaining how some bunch of women will run around naked in the city in the climax breaking the limits created by religion & media in the end they do for few seconds but other then that whole film is filled with pointless dialogs & forget the cast everyone is a waste this is just a strip club fantasy these people wanted to enjoy on the big level.
to put it simply in the last i have to say this film is made for people who live in jungle & out of curiosity why are these topless women interested in only crowded places they could have chose any other place around the country i bet if they did it in front of the white house then damn all hell would have break loose.
basically this film is just a wrong take on feminism it completely kills it women are equal to men & real women will never like this type of film i mean their body is not a public property this film is idiotic at so many levels a naked women does not qualify equality among gender.
Overall Free The Nipple 2014 is a film that insults intelligence i have said it previously i am going to say it again i am not hating on this film i liked it but in parts & for some comedy my rating is 3/10.
I'm not sure I get the points. (no pun intended)
plex13 July 2020
On its own merit, this isn't a badly made docudrama at all, it does all the necessary things from a technical and substantive view. My rating reflects more about the message( or lack thereof) than the actual film itself. It seems to me, that eventually more and more states will not arrest a woman for exposure in public without any activism, so the real goal is to expedite the timeline of acceptance. I happen to think when its right for society it will be right for society. If it were legal in public NOW, in the states it currently is NOT, I don't see that making any measurable difference. Enabling doesn't always proffer a willingness to engage in something someone was hesitant to do to begin with. Legalizing pot has not increased the number of its users, and those users would not police themselves for reasons of shyness, embarrassment, ridicule, added attention, or fear of being objectified, or sexually harassed or encroached upon, like a woman most-likely would in vacillating over her decision to bare her breasts in public. My point being, net-net, what would change? How many women get arrested for exposure each year? Do they serve time? Isn't it just a misdemeanor? Are the arrests made primarily over the rights of the child being violated? What about public breast feeding? It was unclear to me if this film was really about censorship or about equality, as it doesn't really address the double-standard in published and licensed media. At the time of this review, their website was down, and they have around 75,000 followers on facebook. The bottom line, at least for me, is that its really not much of a cause, even though I agree with it. If its so important to take your top off in public, then simply move to a state where its legal.
Be Free and Prosper!
tgbldkam17 October 2020
The movie started out well with the opening sequence then the film dragged. There were a couple filler scenes I fast forward through.
The movie should have been a documentary not a docudrama. A documentary would have been more in-depth and we would have gotten to know the activist behind the free the nipple movement. The activist are ten times more interesting then the characters in the film.
It would have been nice to see the film focus on how woman are body shamed and at the same time sexualized.
I give the film a C for effort.
The movie should have been a documentary not a docudrama. A documentary would have been more in-depth and we would have gotten to know the activist behind the free the nipple movement. The activist are ten times more interesting then the characters in the film.
It would have been nice to see the film focus on how woman are body shamed and at the same time sexualized.
I give the film a C for effort.
A Small Film about a Big Issue
atlasmb18 June 2015
This low budget production is based on a true story. It was produced by, directed by, and written by Lina Esco. The story is about activism in New York City to establish the right of women to show their breasts in public. The courts already said that women have that right, but local police still harassed women who go topless.
By the end of the film, the cause is broadened to emphasize all censorship, including film censorship. This is how it should be, as the display of female anatomy is part of the larger issue of self-expression and the libertarian viewpoint that we all have the right to act however we wish as long as we are not hurting another. As the film rightfully points out, religions play a central role in the creation of taboos and the exercise of censorship.
But the best part of the film is Lina Esco, whose presence as the central character of this film has an energy that reminds me of Angelina Jolie or Katie Holmes.
I did find it confusing that the film sometimes pixelates the topless women. Obviously, this was done for artistic reasons, because the film does not shy from the display of nudity, per its purpose. But this is a minor confusion; it does not dampen the film's enthusiasm for its cause.
By the end of the film, the cause is broadened to emphasize all censorship, including film censorship. This is how it should be, as the display of female anatomy is part of the larger issue of self-expression and the libertarian viewpoint that we all have the right to act however we wish as long as we are not hurting another. As the film rightfully points out, religions play a central role in the creation of taboos and the exercise of censorship.
But the best part of the film is Lina Esco, whose presence as the central character of this film has an energy that reminds me of Angelina Jolie or Katie Holmes.
I did find it confusing that the film sometimes pixelates the topless women. Obviously, this was done for artistic reasons, because the film does not shy from the display of nudity, per its purpose. But this is a minor confusion; it does not dampen the film's enthusiasm for its cause.
Don't trust the trolls!
frba-7786523 August 2015
If you look carefully at the demographics of the people who rated this movie, you will see that it has received very negative reviews by men and older people. It is a shame. I am a man but I liked it and I admired the effort of the women who created this movie and the campaign that it wants to publicise. Does women's freedom to decide about their bodies seem trivial to you? If so, you have a serious problem, not them. I strongly recommend this movie to anyone who believe in campaigning for what they consider important. It is an uplifting story that reminds us how to believe in the possibility of winning against the odds.
It is an idea to move the society forward
qiaoyu-ma17 January 2015
There are many things in the society are considered as "rule of thumb". In the modern society, we are still using the moral standard from our ancestors back into the feudal society. If you think about it, it doesn't make sense especially on sex.
Another related controversy would be should mothers cover their boobs when breastfeeding their babies in the public area. Some people may accuse the behaviors simply because it will make them feel uncomfortable. But who would like to be covered while eating? My guess is normal people won't like it.
Despite the purpose of this movie, the story tells a clear idea of looking at things in a different angle.
Another related controversy would be should mothers cover their boobs when breastfeeding their babies in the public area. Some people may accuse the behaviors simply because it will make them feel uncomfortable. But who would like to be covered while eating? My guess is normal people won't like it.
Despite the purpose of this movie, the story tells a clear idea of looking at things in a different angle.
A powerful and inspiring movie
frba5520 March 2015
This is a movie that everybody, not just women, should watch. It teaches how common people, armed mainly with their will and determination, can positively affect society and contribute to changes in everyone's view of the world. We all are too influenced by the traditional, monotheistic religions and their misogynistic and oppressive agenda. The courageous women in this movie show to all that something can and should be done to affirm the beauty of our bodies and the ugliness of repression and inhibition. I can only assume that the low ratings that appear in IMDb come from people who hate the message that this movie want to communicate. This is a very uplifting story: don't be influenced by some bigots. Give this movie a chance and it will not disappoint you.
Thought provoking at the least
rik-taylor-72-24230215 December 2014
Having watched this film purely out of curiosity towards the movement it really has swayed me to believe in it. It is not just about giving women the opportunity to walk around the streets topless just as many men do freely in the summer months, in fact it's hardly about that at all. It's about societies approach to female nudity and how we are censored from birth, forced into a mindset that sees nudity as obscene and something that should be avoided at all cost. It is the basis by which women and men are seen as completely different and therefore treated completely different. Woman have nipples, men have nipples, yet just because women have a little more behind theirs they must cover them up? When you really think about it, it's so clearly wrong.
The film was an interesting look at the approach of activists and, although clearly made on a budget, it gives a small insight into the amount that some people sacrifice in order to get a few others to think about something for just a few seconds in the hopes of evolving the way our society works.
The film was an interesting look at the approach of activists and, although clearly made on a budget, it gives a small insight into the amount that some people sacrifice in order to get a few others to think about something for just a few seconds in the hopes of evolving the way our society works.
What have they done to my song?
alpha-730326 July 2015
Netflix, because of its proscription against "obscenity," rejected this review. Louis Armstrong, after learning to blow his horn among drug addicts and prostitutes, pointed out that what's wrong with our wonderful world is only what we're doing to it. "Nobody has to guess that baby can't be blessed, 'til she sees finally that she's like all the rest, with her fog, her amphetamines, and her pearls," sang Bob Dylan of some of what others of us blow into our wind. This movie points out that none of that, and none of the hypocrisy of the media or other musicians, produces the terror of war or other killing while "humanity" calls the most basic means of nurturing us humans obscene. Let's get real. HITRT
Charming and On Point
senseofsight1815 December 2014
This film raised a point that many people want to ignore or shame. Female sexuality is represented in vastly different ways in society. We claim to be equal, but if that's the case why is it against the law for women to go shirtless and not men? It's an important example of unequal gender barriers and this movie tries to explore ways we can change those skewed views into something that benefits everyone. I fear that many people judged this movie before watching it. They shamed it without giving it a chance. If you think this movie is a free show or a gimmick, it's not. This movie is about female empowerment and women owning their bodies. It is about the everyday ways women are undermined by outdated and unfair laws. It is about trying to generate change and how sometimes you have to stand as a small group while fighting for millions.
I loved the movie... Don't listen to the critics
acleancut19 December 2014
I love the movie... Don't listen to the critics. It's a new film for the new world ! The message was clear and concise. I wish more movie makers would deliver such a brilliant message in their movies. I think the world needs more movies like this one. Please, if you haven't seen this feature go and check it out. It will enlighten you about the oppression of women. Please go and see this movie. Your opinion of how you feel about women and their rights will be changed forever in good way.I think the main character really embodied the type of female role models that most women should look up to in today's society ! If you haven't seen this movie, go and see you it. You'll be glad you did.
Original, Witty, Powerful.
ruth-stein-844819 December 2014
This film is an extremely refreshing break from the tired and endless stream of recycled action flicks, and CGI cartoons. This movie actually stands for something, and isn't afraid to stick to its guns and get a little weird along the path to making its point. The underdog, guerrilla tactics storyline is inspiring, and makes one ponder their own personal abilities to start a revolutionary equality movement. I found this unique first foray into directing by Lina Esco to be incredibly entertaining, and inspiring. I thought Esco, Kirke, and Grenier give the strongest performances, carrying the conflict and message of the film, Blake Newman provides the comedic relief, and everybody else nicely fills out the rest.
Overall, this is an easy 10/10 for managing all at once to be original, powerful, fun, and thought-provoking.
Overall, this is an easy 10/10 for managing all at once to be original, powerful, fun, and thought-provoking.
Inspiration
lana-7900210 February 2017
This is a great and inspirational film. I've seen people complain about this film due to poor quality and i think they forget that film makers have budgets. Also their is a complaint that their aren't enough breasts in this film but i don't think they considered the fact that their might be a limit to nudity timings depending on factors like age certificates. Personally i think this is an amazing film. Its inspirational and helps raise awareness for an issue that should be addressed. It has skillfully talked about this issue and showing the strong views and stories of people from free the nipple i love this film. It truly makes you think.
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