This movie is not good, but not for the reasons that many other people are claiming.
First off, if you actually see how the storyline progresses and the philosophy it ultimately ends with, it would be inaccurate to say this movie is feminist at all. And I was ready to call out this movie on shoe-horning in an in your face female-power cheese fest. But it can't even do that right, because it doesn't make any sense.
This movie's world-building is atrocious. After experiencing a traumatic event with a male coworker (which may have not been the first time?), the main character crawls through an oven and ends up... somewhere else. Whether that's the afterlife, or some pocket dimension, or just into a dream, it isn't reality as we know it. But the rules of this world are never really laid out in any real way. Lots of things contradict each other.
If it's the afterlife, why are there men there that were definitely alive in her real life? If those men aren't real how do they end up there? They feeling like NPC enemies in a videogame that just exist to die. They aren't even shown to be very violent at all and don't seem to have any idea that the women are their enemies. So are the women there just like, manifesting this war in their heads? Anyways.
Storytelling wise it is very jumbled. After initially easily accepting the premise that she has to kill men, the main character decides killing = bad and she doesn't want to do it anymore. A justified decision to make, I guess, but everyone else around her (aside from one) almost too easily accept this change of heart considering they've been living these for seemingly forever. They then help her go back despite the fact that her leaving will like, implode this pocket dimension or something. I don't know what makes her so important that these people no longer care about existing since it seems her main motivation to return is that she has a friend (who is a man) back on earth.
The main character goes back to her real life, which still sucks since nothing about it has changed at all. And it seems she ends the movie with a: "Well I just have to keep moving forward" kind of attitude. Which is strange, because that doesn't actually solve any of the problems in her life. So you wonder what that character journey was even for, if she was just going to end up in the same place she started.
This movie makes you ask too many questions that you shouldn't have to. It feels like the barebones of a story that could have been interesting, unfortunately it never gets off the ground.
First off, if you actually see how the storyline progresses and the philosophy it ultimately ends with, it would be inaccurate to say this movie is feminist at all. And I was ready to call out this movie on shoe-horning in an in your face female-power cheese fest. But it can't even do that right, because it doesn't make any sense.
This movie's world-building is atrocious. After experiencing a traumatic event with a male coworker (which may have not been the first time?), the main character crawls through an oven and ends up... somewhere else. Whether that's the afterlife, or some pocket dimension, or just into a dream, it isn't reality as we know it. But the rules of this world are never really laid out in any real way. Lots of things contradict each other.
If it's the afterlife, why are there men there that were definitely alive in her real life? If those men aren't real how do they end up there? They feeling like NPC enemies in a videogame that just exist to die. They aren't even shown to be very violent at all and don't seem to have any idea that the women are their enemies. So are the women there just like, manifesting this war in their heads? Anyways.
Storytelling wise it is very jumbled. After initially easily accepting the premise that she has to kill men, the main character decides killing = bad and she doesn't want to do it anymore. A justified decision to make, I guess, but everyone else around her (aside from one) almost too easily accept this change of heart considering they've been living these for seemingly forever. They then help her go back despite the fact that her leaving will like, implode this pocket dimension or something. I don't know what makes her so important that these people no longer care about existing since it seems her main motivation to return is that she has a friend (who is a man) back on earth.
The main character goes back to her real life, which still sucks since nothing about it has changed at all. And it seems she ends the movie with a: "Well I just have to keep moving forward" kind of attitude. Which is strange, because that doesn't actually solve any of the problems in her life. So you wonder what that character journey was even for, if she was just going to end up in the same place she started.
This movie makes you ask too many questions that you shouldn't have to. It feels like the barebones of a story that could have been interesting, unfortunately it never gets off the ground.