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Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Common sense refutes many of the claims the MRAs make throughout the film. Almost everyone of these claims is backed by little more than anecdotal evidence that the filmmaker never questions. What statistics are used are never given context. It is genuinely hilarious how frequently the MRAs accidentally use common feminist sayings without realizing the irony. Some valid points are brought up by the MRAs, but most issues they bring up are also areas of concern of feminist movements. Another LARGE thing to consider is that this is a very white perspective. No people of color interviewed--and that is not for lack of experts. Sympathy for MRAs can only go so far. To a point it is just pathetic, and this film crosses that point.

Cassie Jaye made a very deep, and a vert thinking-loaded documentary about men's rights. I have never known much of what she described in her movie, but the facts are clear-cut, logically arranged, effectively presented, stunningly honest and very decent. Feminism is a very large thing and it's not an easy deal to grasp it at one gulp. Same as MRA. Men's Rughts are described here at full, and very interesting facts are presebted well and sincerely. Casey had a mind-changing trip. So have we. If you watch this, take patience, as it is a lonf, 120 minutes, slow-pacing, serious movie with tons of dialog, but it does deliver the message. Both sides are vulnerable and suffering. Great watch for those who are willing to study the issue deeper

I heard about this documentary on youtube and after watching a Ted Talk by the filmmaker I had to see it. Honestly, my expectations may have been too high but it was still a very good documentary. The production value was great and it was a topic which really doesn't get any mainstream media attention (unless you count htitpieces on buzzfeed, vox, or huffingtonpost). She focused on the issues that the MRA movement is most concerned with and which your average person can easily get on board with. She also exposed some of the flaws of the modern feminist movement, which is in desperate need of self-evaluation. She mostly avoided some of the most controversial points, which may actually have been wise because this film got a huge backlash as it is. There were some pretty compelling arguments made in the documentary and there were some very sad stories presented which I think will raise peoples awareness of men's issues. It would have been good to hear more about the accusations made against the MRAs however because they were sometimes quite severe. Also, there could have been a little more from the feminist perspective.

As its International Men's Day I thought I'd review a documentary that I saw a few days ago.How did I learn of The Red Pill? Thats a journey in itself...Someone tried to bully me in my place of work for being openly gay (note the word 'tried'. I fought back and have never seen myself as a victim. I'm a fighter). However, in the midst of what was happening to me I began to suffer from clinical depression. The panic attacks that I had kept at bay since the age of 13 were now out of control and I began to experience suicidal thoughts on a daily basis.It was whilst suffering from all of this that I began to research the issue of suicide and learnt that 75-78% of suicides are male. This fact shocked me massively. And so from looking into male suicide I learnt about The Red Pill. The title is actually a reference to the movie The Matrix ''in which the protagonist is offered the choice of a red pill, representing truth and self-knowledge, or a blue pill representing a return to blissful ignorance''.I knew that the film was seen as controversial to some people with some feminists wanting it to be banned. So is this film about the Men's Rights Movement a rancid cesspool of anti-feminism rhetoric, a film that only conveys views from rape enablers that are fundamentally anti-women? Of course not. The film is amazingly balanced with Men's Rights activists finally given a platform as well as feminists on the same topics. I had never heard these Men's Rights advocates speak before which is also very telling. The audience is granted a modicum of intelligence with which they can make up their own mind. Topics raised and discussed include male suicide, the lack of funding for male health conditions such as testicular and prostate cancer, the custody battles that fathers go through, the male victims of domestic abuse...the list goes on. These are all issues in which there is no equality between the sexes with men coming out disadvantaged. The documentary itself is amazingly made by filmmaker Cassie Jaye. She presents a well rounded and perceptive documentary that is balanced, fact-based and free from hysterical amateur dramatics. The documentary flows effortlessly and you feel like you want to see more when it finishes. Thankfully there are uncut and unedited interviews from the film on YouTube. And whilst you're on YouTube look up Cassie Jaye's videos. Especially of note are the interviews given to the Australian media who had never even seen the film (they claim that Ms Jaye hadn't supplied the film for them to see when in fact she had and several times. Ignorance is bliss, Andrew O'Keefe) but called it misogynistic and hateful. This is clear proof that they had never seen the film as The Red Pill is neither. But it seems that others are also taking The Red Pill. Taste of Cinema had a list of their favourite documentaries on their website recently. The Red Pill featured in that list. And it fully deserved to be there.I'll finish this review by reiterating the fact I quoted earlier. 75-78% of suicides are male. 75-78%! These conversations regarding men's issues need to be had before there are many more casualties. And I speak from very bitter experience. The Red Pill starts this process of discussion and discourse in a brilliantly balanced and intelligent way. Thank you, Cassie Jaye.