Bill B
This very good movie examines misogyny, but in no way is a misogynistic movie. Recently there has been a number of movies that address the brute in man, how that relates to the female, and how that might change in such an encounter. The question asked is, will man always be an aggressor or, however isolated he is, does he retain some decency and honour? The recent and excellent Compartment No. 6 also places an initially brutal male in the company of a woman who is both strong and vulnerable. There is also the Survivalist, a film that examines the tense trade-offs between women and men in a post-apocalyptic world. The Survivalist takes place in a collapsed world, while Compartment No. 6 examines issues of woman and culture contrasted to the vodka male of the Russian cult of Putinist machismo.
Love No1. Dog is more elemental. A man isolated in the wilderness rescues a woman he finds who has been beaten and raped. That he gives her the bed in his cabin and sleeps on the floor under a huge shaggy bearskin that looks almost as if it is his own skin tells a lot about the imagery of the movie. She will not allow him to take her to help, and she cannot leave, meaning the drama unfolds in the cabin and surrounding wilderness. You wonder, will he continue to be a rescuer or turn on this wounded woman? Does brute lust and male power triumph? A carefully drawn study of the primal relations between woman and man, certainly worth your time.
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Rated 4 out of 5 stars
04/05/22
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Highly misogynist dark movie...that sees an abused injured woman dumped in the woods found by a lone rough aggressive man living isolated in a primitive cabin. We witness him molesting the women, casting his grubby hands all over her body, in the belief he is ascertaining if she has any injuries. When Asking her had she any pain in any areas of her bruised body would have sufficed....his hands wander all over her vulnerable captured body...too weak to resist, yet another attack. Her recovering is slow and his offer of refuge soon turns to possession. Fact is he kidnaps her for his own purposes. A friend , who the man believes raped her, becomes in his mind a rival..who would make off with his newly found possession, becomes a threat he must deal with , like one deals with a rabid wolf.
The mans responses are crude and rough as he treats the woman more and more as an object who cannot leave.
The atmosphere of this dark forest based narrative is devoid of any form of empathy or compassion from both the male characters towards a deeply traumatised young women. She is possession not a human being with rights at any point in this moving....does she escape her drunken aggressive capture? Seriously not a movie worth watching if you are already concerned about movies that depict women as captives and lacking in agency devoid of the entitlement of dignity or respect from men they have the misfortune to meet. A silently shocking portrayal of men's inhumanity to women...
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars
02/05/23
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