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House of Hammer (2022)
Horrible people with maturity of 5 year old trying to cash on their lack of boundaries
I am shocked and sickened by every personal account in this series. Every "victim" that tells her story in her cracked voice with dramatic music in the background actually tells the story of how she met a handsome wealthy famous man who had kinks and fetishes they were not comfortable with, but was not able to say "no" to him and then felt after morning guilt and now is screaming abuse. Newsflash: saying that you have a fantasy doesn't mean you are going to do it. If you don't want your boyfriend tying you up, use your lips and say "no". One of them, Courtney, even said "I never said no". These women are a blimey to the "me too" movement. These is 0 abuse here. He brought rope, tied her up during sex - and then untied her afterwards before going to sleep, because leaving her tied up could cause nerve damage. He actually knew this, which shows a tremendous amount of care for her. But! He fell asleep! Shibari has been practices for sexual reason in Japan for thousands of years. A lot of people practice BDSM, and if you don't want to, say "no" and walk out. These women are looking for their 15 minutes of fame. It's the most disgusting thing I have seen in a long time.... These women should not be allowed to be out without a chaperone, because they cannot claim their boundaries and say "no". This is not assault. Assault would mean they said "please stop". Instead, they didn't, because they wanted the wealth and power, just not the man. And frankly, horrible actresses. No wonder they couldn't make it professionally.
This Is 40 (2012)
The pitfalls of American culture
I like to think that I am a rational balanced human being. I am 45 years old, and a woman. I have children, I have been married, I have lost a husband, I have had a life.
I like romantic comedies, they calm me down. I am just sick and tired, so incredibly tired, that this country keeps pumping out movies where almost no subject is taboo - except the idea that a woman would have abortion. It doesn't matter if the women is a 16 year girl that was raped, or if the father is dead and she has nothing to her name. In this story, a couple in their 40's with two children is in financial trouble, is about to lose their home and businesses, and the man's father just had triplets and he is supporting his dad financially to boot - and then it turns out that his wife is pregnant. And yet, in the face of all these financial troubles, she decides to have it, because I guess its important for American women to punish themselves and their families for the cardinal sin of having sex with with their husbands via having a baby when they are 40. This will further deplete their resources, take away extra attention and financial support from their children, and could possibly send them into serious financial ruin - but no, abortion is bad. So bad, a character can't even bring herself to consider it! Why?! Why does the film industry not like women?! Or families?! Because this to me means they don't like families.
The River Murders (2011)
Abortions and United States cinema....
So they can make this convoluted movie send a message about unborn babies, but they can't have one woman do a decent thing and have an abortion and get it over with?! This is United States cinema. Whatever changes we go through, however we progress, if a woman gets pregnant in a movie, she can only have the child, no other option is ever undertaken. She must by the laws of movie formula. Grow up, Hollywood.
The 10th Kingdom (2000)
The storyline is engaging... but the characters are mostly horrible
Two humans come into a magical world and all they spend their time trying to do is come back to their boring empty pointless reality. The selfishness of the daughter and the father is astounding. A ruler of a nation has been turned into. dog, but they spend episodes trying to find a magic mirror to come back into Manhattan. A passionate exuberant man falls in love with the daughter but she is much too self absorbed to even deign to be kind to him and somehow manages to manipulate his feelings to force him to help her but is too self absorbed to realize she is doing it. The father is also selfish, but he is also incredibly dumb. I absolutely loved the evil queen, and felt deeply sorry for her, being surrounded by complete morons. I loved the wolf as well, and I couldn't understand why he would like this irritating selfish woman that somehow also managed to be completely void of any aspirations whatsoever, since she spends her time trying to come back to our world - to continue being a waitress. No, don't bother engaging in the magical world you are in, go home and stay a waitress. That is best. Ok.
Submission (2016)
Finally!
Finally, someone actually writes a sexually exciting night-time series! I have never been able to watch soft core porn - because the sex is essentially removed while all the fun of the inner human psyche is gone. But not this time! I only want to know, what do I need to do not to see this one get canceled?! Is there a place where I can give stars to this series that will make this one stay? What really is amazing about this series is that it shows, very honestly, that BDSM, poly, experimental, or vanilla, people are just people, and are subject to all the same issues - the need to be seen, to be understood, to be loved, and to deal with our own inner drama and insecurities. It actually shows that sex and sexuality is something to be explored and embraced, not shunned away. Men and women equally are sexual creatures, all on a journey. I just love how amazingly sexy this series is without giving up on human interaction and the gunk of the human drama. I don't know how it does it, but the balance is achieved. I can't wait until the finale! When is it coming back?!
The Flock (2007)
Thank you for Another Stereotype, America
Despite that this should be by now ordinary to me, I continually become amazed when the mainstream American movie industry panders with amazingly clinging loyalty to the the American public their tendency to fanaticize and obsess over the obscene. To translate...
When discussing the grotesque and the macabre, abuse, torture and destruction of human life, we become most fascinated when such things are done in a bizarre fashion. Of course, it only profits to connect the dots of this fascination to the fetishists. I can't specify enough not only how incorrect, but how harmful this is.
I understand how disgusting the American public must find the idea of S/M, BDSM, and Fetishism. That being said, it is blissfully unaware of the simple difference between people who consensually engage in such acts and those individuals that enjoy abusing victims without any permission to do so. It sounds so simple, yet is so essential - at every moment in the movie the berated and obsessed yet righteous agent "uncovers" how his hapless clients like to abuse and sometimes kill women. The fetishists are intermingled with men who mutilate, rape, and kill women. This is beyond cheap - this is discrimination.
There is a large difference between a woman who wants to be bound and whipped and a man who is doing this to her, and a man who likes to do this to women who don't want it. Sadism is a term misused - there is a DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ODD SEXUAL ACTS AND ABUSIVE CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR. This movie is an insult to the first amendment rights of every American citizen. That being said, this movie breeds ignorance of this. People who engage in S/M are not child molesters and rapists. Sometimes molesters and rapists may like some of the S/M pornographic material. However, there are many individuals who engage in S/M, and they have no prior abuse records, no troubled childhoods, and have no intention to harm anyone who doesn't specifically request and agree to it. Yes, masochists find sadists, indeed, need sadists, as the other half of their happy perverse existence. Neither breaks the law.
Particularly annoying was when the agent had a consensual couple in public this time, leaving it very difficult for him to go on his violent paranoid rant, so he chose to annoy and harass them instead, who basically told him to go and sit on it. So, basically, according to this movie, any abnormal sexual behavior will be persecuted by the state. What I'd like to know is, what is the point of this people's jobs? And what are they saying about our rights?