It's highly ironic that a comedy that purports to demonstrate the mindset of propaganda, seems, itself, to operate as modern feminist propaganda.
Therefore, this is not a comedy, not because it is not funny, but because comedy does not appear to really be its aim. It seems simply rooted in the more modern idea (more modern than 1919) that women's body insecurity is the result of a patriarchal desire to oppress them. Whatever my thoughts are on that particular theory, my main objection is that it is, at least in appearance, as I said, propaganda for this specific idea, hiding as comedy, and also apparently using the comedy genre to avoid questions around big holes, such as - in this 'top secret' meeting - who are these men discussing this?
As such the writing is as childish, biased and hollow as any party political broadcast. It's quite shocking to me that the BFI would fund stuff like this, I wish they would instead back more things such as Under The Shadow, which was exceptional.
Therefore, this is not a comedy, not because it is not funny, but because comedy does not appear to really be its aim. It seems simply rooted in the more modern idea (more modern than 1919) that women's body insecurity is the result of a patriarchal desire to oppress them. Whatever my thoughts are on that particular theory, my main objection is that it is, at least in appearance, as I said, propaganda for this specific idea, hiding as comedy, and also apparently using the comedy genre to avoid questions around big holes, such as - in this 'top secret' meeting - who are these men discussing this?
As such the writing is as childish, biased and hollow as any party political broadcast. It's quite shocking to me that the BFI would fund stuff like this, I wish they would instead back more things such as Under The Shadow, which was exceptional.
