Today, I will show you a romantic comedy film "Men Have to Love Oneself" shot by a female director. It is also called "I'm Not a Casual Man".
At the beginning of the film, we see a group of children rehearsing the fairy tale "Snow White". However, when it was time to take the stage, the girl who played Snow White suddenly fell ill and was unable to appear. At this point, someone needs to be rescued. The teacher asked: Who wants to wear Snow White's dress?
A little boy raised his hand!
He put on his skirt and came to the stage, but was ridiculed unscrupulously by the audience.
This childhood shadow had a serious impact on the little boy.
Growing up, he became Damian, the film's leading man—a successful, handsome, playboy life.
Damian, an executive at a software company, designed an app that didn't respect women, but won the approval of his boss.
As a bachelor, flirting with girls is a compulsory course for him every day.
His good friend Christopher is a family man, but this does not prevent him from continuing to attract bees and butterflies when his wife has a big belly.
One day, Damian and Christopher were walking down the street.
With his eyes fixed on the beauty, Damian didn't notice the telephone pole on the side of the road and slammed into it.
After waking up, Damian found that the world was completely different.
His good friend Christopher turned into a sissy and told the policewomen that some hooligans were sneakily following them.
Back at home, Damian opened his closet, looking for a pair of jeans to put on, but saw rows of coquettish clothes.
So he had to wear a pair of sweatpants with "HOT" printed on his butt to go to work. He thinks that this dress doesn't look so coquettish, it is already a relatively low-key outfit in the pile of clothes, but it still attracts the attention of countless people.
After coming to the company, he found that the person in charge of the reception was a man, and his former boss became the little brother who was serving tea and pouring water. The current female boss not only rejected the plan he had designed before, but also "unspoken rules" to him.
Damian, who was angry at the company, came to the bar for a drink, and saw this scene: two men in headscarves wanted to order, but the female owner of the bar refused. "I don't serve men who wear hijabs," she said.
The man said aggrievedly: "All of a sudden he said that we covered our heads, and all of a sudden he said that we showed too many thighs. What is the man's fault? Women can do whatever they want." for being forced by their wives.
The parents told Damian that they wanted to hold their grandson, hoping that he could find someone to rely on.
Damian thinks the world is so wrong! Why are men shopping for groceries on the street? Why do manicures are also men?
He came to the telephone pole again, hoping to knock himself back into his old world.
However, he failed. He can only accept reality and adapt to the new world.
What kind of world is this?
Women stand to pee; scantily clad men dance pole dancing in nightclubs; women run shirtless on the street; women whistle when they see handsome men on the street; women can kiss men, but if men take the initiative Kissing is considered debauchery; mother and daughter watching football on the sofa; woman changing tires; husband with children at home, wife cheating...
In this world, women are bosses, CEOs, and men are assistants, cleaners, etc.
In order to adapt to this new world, Damian shaved off his chest hair and leg hair.
Meeting the new female boss for the first time, he deliberately put on sexy business clothes.
Damian took over from Christopher because he was on paternity leave and his wife gave birth early.
In this way, Damian became the assistant of the heroine Alysandre.
Alysandre is the female version of Damian. She lived a dissolute life, changing men every day, and occasionally hiring male prostitutes to enjoy life.
There are some bottles on the cabinet in her home, with different year labels on the bottles, and each small ball in the bottle symbolizes the men she conquered each year.
The first time I came to Alysandre's house, Damian was an eye-opener.
On the walls, he saw many pictures of luxury sports cars. These are the cars that Alysandre once drove.
When Alysandre met him, she was wearing only an open white shirt, unbuttoned.
She also showed off her abs to Damian. This is the result of her daily exercise at the gym.
Alysandre is a writer who begins seducing Damian in order to create a best-selling book.
Step by step, Damian was conquered by this new environment.
Let's take a look at his changes.
The man is the one who pleases himself, and he began to pay attention to himself in the mirror: whether his buttocks are upturned enough.
In the past, he was disposable with women, worried that those women would annoy him.
Now he was worried that Alysandre would disappear.
In the past, he felt single, long live, and now he also thought of marriage after seeing other people's weddings.
Damian is in love with Alyssandra, and he finally wants to settle down.
The bohemian life is a thing of the past for him, because he has met true love.
Damian joined a group protesting women's rights, and he followed a group of men to the streets for demonstrations.
He learned from Alysandre's former leader: Alysandre was already married.
Only then did Damian understand that he was being kidnapped.
The disheartened Damian came to the bar to drink to drown his sorrows, but was molested by a group of female hooligans.
Fortunately, Alysandre appeared in time to protect Damian's virginity and staged the scene of "Heroes Save Beauty".
At the end of the film, the heroine is also hit, which knocks her back into modern society.
Alysandre saw girls wearing thigh-high skirts on the street, as well as a large group of women demonstrating. Transitioning from a feminist society to a male-dominated society, she suddenly felt uneasy, and she began to worry about herself. Just then, she heard Damian calling her. It turned out that both of them came to this world.
The world in the movie is like a mirror, reflecting the problems in real life.
As early as eight years ago, a short film "The Vulnerable Majority" was just put on Youtube and received tens of millions of views.
Later, this short film was expanded into a long-form film, and there was "Men Must Love Oneself" that we see today.
Gender discrimination is ancient. The male protagonist in the film realizes that his machismo is wrong because he travels to another world. His change has brought him love.
In my opinion, there are problems with extreme patriarchy and extreme feminism, and perhaps gender equality is the best solution.
Well, that's all for this movie, I wish everyone can reap true love.
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