In ‘The Last Duel,’ Matt Damon and Ben Affleck want you to know they know men are bad

Kuato2012 · 2021-10-14T12:27:12+00:00

beyond the raised awareness of sexual assault in our society that #MeToo prompted, the movement also underlined the general shittiness of men

Only to small minds.

As film critic Jessica Kiang put it in her review, The Last Duel “illustrat[es] … how men are now and have always been, the absolute fucking worst.”

Oh look, more open, mask-off sexism. And yet there are still plenty of people out there who actually believe misandry doesn't real.

I wouldn’t want to give them, or costar Adam Driver or director Ridley Scott, too much credit for this not-especially-novel insight

Rank bigotry isn't especially novel, I'll give the author that. I hesitate to call anything so pretty and benighted an "insight" though.

I don’t think it’s a stretch to say that Damon and Affleck are tapping into something primal about toxic masculinity that, being men, they know exists in all men.

I see the hatred has ratcheted forward from "toxic masculinity only refers to forms of masculinity that are toxic" to "toxic masculinity exists in all men."

YourPillsAintWorkin · 2021-10-14T19:13:41+00:00

Is all this misandrist subtext actually in the film, or is this wish-thinking on the part of the feminists writing about it?

40moreyears · 2021-10-14T20:08:16+00:00

Lol “men are bad”. Wtf does that even mean?

xsintrik- · 2021-10-14T19:45:36+00:00

I've pretty much given up on Damon since his speech in Australia.

Man_of_culture_112 · 2022-01-19T19:55:13+00:00

I hated that movie

Title	In ‘The Last Duel,’ Matt Damon and Ben Affleck want you to know they know men are bad
Author	Kuato2012
Upvotes	48
Comments	8
Date	October 14, 2021 12:06 PM UTC (1 year ago)
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