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I was going through Neflix last night and came across a gender role reversal film. I Am Not an Easy Man 2018.
it is a French romantic comedy directed by Éléonore Pourriat. If it is dubbed it is done very well.
Synopsis
Damien is a shameless chauvinist who has all the benefits of living in a patriarchal society. After a bump to the head, Damien passes out. When he wakes up, he finds himself in what seems to be an alternate universe where gender roles are reversed and women have the power. Damien feels confused: now that he experiences sexism he struggles to find his place in this foreign new world. He meets and seduces Alexandra, an influential novelist who is herself a chauvinist.
Men do not dress as women, but they shave off nearly all their body hair. They wear shorts to expose their legs and feminine-style flat shoes. Women wear styled men's clothes. When the main character complains he is asked if his hormones are off. Women are sexual predators, men are worried about being raped (not sure how that would work).Males are ballet dancers etc.
There is hint of why the world is different. The male lead tells the female lead. In my world, men are stronger, early men fed women only a little from the hunt to keep you weak. (that's not why women are weaker in real life). The female lead tells him that Women were stronger so they made males stay home and look after the babies. There are some funny masculinist demonstration scenes.
What I liked about it was that it didn't show a utopia, as most feminist films would. This world shows women to be as bad as men. I think the idea is to show men what it is like being on the other side of the fence.
I think it would have worked better had they used larger, taller actors for the female parts and smaller slighter for the males. There was also a scene in what I assume is a gay or crossdressing club. There, women and some men were wearing skirts and heels and makeup. This made no sense as men nor women wore any of that in the "real" world.
The film has quite a good ending.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xA60i4TfKLQ
This is a review on Youtube.
This is really an expanded version of a short film she did earlier.
