I had high hopes for this film.
The Bee Gee's soundtrack and choreographed dance routines were undeniably fun, they alone would have merited a 7/8 were they tied together by some form of coherent storyline.
Alas, not only was the film edited into a series of unexplained events with little storytelling value, but the writing was consistently underlined with misogyny and ignorance. From start to finish antisocial behaviour was glorified from harassment to disorder and even the extremes of confrontational and sexual violence. These emotive scenes served no productive purpose in the film to elevate the level of character development other than to make abundantly clear the level of indifference members of production have for the women they imagined. None of the perpetrators of this violence and sexual aggression face punishment or even self-awareness, the only consequence being blaming of the victims and even in these scenes they weren't given a moment of focused storytelling.
Though the standards of the time were different, I struggle to believe this was ever an acceptable screenplay to produce. To have a male-orientated film is perfectly justifiable, yet to revolve this film around the conquest of females without giving one of those female characters a scene in which they weren't directly judged on sexuality or allowed a wider development shows a genuinely disgusting outlook on the part of the writers, in my personal opinion.
Alas, not only was the film edited into a series of unexplained events with little storytelling value, but the writing was consistently underlined with misogyny and ignorance. From start to finish antisocial behaviour was glorified from harassment to disorder and even the extremes of confrontational and sexual violence. These emotive scenes served no productive purpose in the film to elevate the level of character development other than to make abundantly clear the level of indifference members of production have for the women they imagined. None of the perpetrators of this violence and sexual aggression face punishment or even self-awareness, the only consequence being blaming of the victims and even in these scenes they weren't given a moment of focused storytelling.
Though the standards of the time were different, I struggle to believe this was ever an acceptable screenplay to produce. To have a male-orientated film is perfectly justifiable, yet to revolve this film around the conquest of females without giving one of those female characters a scene in which they weren't directly judged on sexuality or allowed a wider development shows a genuinely disgusting outlook on the part of the writers, in my personal opinion.