“I’m not an easy man” Netflix

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Or «Je suis pas un homme facile» originally.

Fun feminist French film on Netflix where the womanising protagonist wakes up in an alternate world where men are constantly objectified and women hold all the power.

It’s a bit like What Women Want but so much better. Plus it has some cool Parisian chic going on (not the point I know ) and an amazing ending.

Has anyone seen it? And if not can you please hurry up watch it then come back and discuss it with me?

Thanks I will look for this!

sounds fab - I will check it out. I have my brother over for the weekend and my chances of persuading both him and my husband to watch a french feminist film are nil. I'll have to watch it later in the week and report back.

I'm most excited about the Parisian chic

I keep seeing the trailer, but its good to hear it delivers on the premise. Will make an effort to watch and return to discuss.

Thanks! I knew I could rely on you lot

Ooh this sounds fabulous. Unfortunately I don't have Netflix. This has made me quite sad.

If you have internet, you could have Netflix. It starts at £5.99 a month for the basic SD bundle and they are currently offering one month free. Clear your diary and fill your boots.

Sounds good. I will try and watch it soon.

Adding it to my things I want to watch. Parisian chic gets me everytime add in some feminism and thats me more than happy!

I'm watching it with DH tonight

Is it a film or series?

90 min film. Just watched it I give it a 9/10. Thanks for the recommendation OP

Adding it to my list! Thanks

OK, I had a chance to watch it this afternoon. I’m not sure I’m a fan. It was basically transferring all the boorish, domineering behaviour onto the women, making them unpleasant, sexually abusive/coercive and e.g. ‘dead beat’ mums. Whilst it was amusing to see the lead in a tailored tiny shorts trouser suit (nice legs) and all the muscley young men in the strip club, I don’t think it had anything interesting or imaginative to say about what a society run by women for the benefit of women/all might look like. Glossy, but ultimately unfulfilling.

Greymisty I'm glad you liked it!

boaty I know what you mean but I thought it was about the shock factor when you see it reversed, and men being the ones to wax their chests and pubic hair, worry about maternity leave etc, you see how bonkers it all is. Without the rude awakening he wouldn't have become a better person.

But yes, I've always believed that a matriarchy wouldn't harm men to the same extent that a patriarchy harms women, because one is tends to equality and the other to hierarchy.

The French clearly have ishoos with hairy women, if the woman’s disgust at the lead’s hairy, unwaxed chest is a barometer of the reverse. Ditto the boss’s flash of hairy ankle.

Agree OK I thought the point of the film was to freshen your eyes to the ridiculousness of the pressures and the culture surrounding women. I watched parts and giggled because how silly is it to shape chest hair? Implausible. And then its like oh we do heart shapes for muffs. Seeing it in reverse really made me question what I take as 'normal'.

Agree OP*

Its the small details, like all the advertising posters having men posing with mouth open.

Just finished it. Loved it. Especially Damians chest landing strip
Is it the same guy who made that short thing about sexual assault a couple of years ago?

The landing strip was pointedly stupid and funny for it. I equally liked Alexandra’s wardrobe full of comfortable, sober attire and flat shoes and how, when Damien arrived at her flat the first time in his hotty suit and slip on shoes, he also took his popsock shoeliners off with his pretty brogues.

I loved Alexandra. Total badass.
I loved the topless woman running too

Alexandra looked so good! You'd think that the men would wear even more colorful and revealing outfits though...
It was a shock when they went back to the real world, with the women in high heels, brothel (?) exteriors and sexy underwear adverts. It really brought home how sick patriarchy is without showing much.

But yes, I've always believed that a matriarchy wouldn't harm men to the same extent that a patriarchy harms women, because one is tends to equality and the other to hierarchy.

Interesting. Why do you think that? The definitions I can find on google don’t seem to mention equality vs hierarchy.

It was a shock when they went back to the real world, with the women in high heels, brothel (?) exteriors and sexy underwear adverts.

Yep. That is what I liked too. Sometimes I go past advertisements of smiley slim women in poses that are coquettish and appealing in a quasi submissive way and I experience a brief moment of “wokeness”, of WTF! Why never men?

Which is what Alexandra felt like. Her suits were fantastic weren’t they?!

Interesting. Why do you think that? The definitions I can find on google don’t seem to mention equality vs hierarchy.

Nothing scientific or research based, just from experience about what women talk about.

Actually this sounds a bit bizarre but if you look at movies aimed at men and women. These movies are geared at what they think the different sexes want. You can watch many “man” movies that have barely any female characters (except the love / sex interest and the strident female boss) but “woman” movies have many parts for men and are often centred around relationships with men.

What I mean is I don’t think will have any interest in dominating or placing themselves at the top of the hierarchy in the way that patriarchy has.