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The_Shadout_Mapes's avatar

I know this is in part internalized misogyny but there’s very little that enrages me more than female complicity in child abuse. Silence is complicity. I also recognize the challenges involved in leaving a partner from finances to not having a safe harbor to the very real possibility that leaving will cost them their life or their children’s lives. I’m going to make coffee and sit with this awhile.

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Robert Spottswood, M.A.'s avatar

“On Becoming a Guinea Fowl is not a funny movie; it’s not vibrant and it’s not a fun exercise in cultural tourism. It is a searing, bleak exploration of sexual assault, sexism, misogyny, and enforced family silence…”

Saving this description for my eventual review of some eventual film looking back on the life of the late mob boss Trump…

Thanks for the clear eyed naming of what the film is and does.

Was that the filmmaker’s intent, or did they intend to make the funny film seen by rotten tomatoes? The answer may suggest the degree of patriarchy ingested by rotten tomatoes reviewers.

The late Roger Ebert always made his degree of ingestion so clear.

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