It’s about how you show it. If it’s clear from the film that the behavior is not OK, I think it’s fine to show things that are absolutely happening in the real world. We get films and shows where cops murder people, steal drugs, whatever. And that’s certainly not normalizing this behavior. Not showing it is, in my mind, sweeping the well-documented asocial, asshole behavior of many cops under the carpet. Copaganda, essentially.
society has shifted away from that kind of representation of casual sexual harassment as being acceptable.
I think we agree? My point is that this movie does not depict it in a negative light, which is gross. Showing it because it’s ‘realistic’ is likely self-fufilling, showing it as commentary is very different from how sexploitation films usually operate.
It’s about how you show it. If it’s clear from the film that the behavior is not OK, I think it’s fine to show things that are absolutely happening in the real world. We get films and shows where cops murder people, steal drugs, whatever. And that’s certainly not normalizing this behavior. Not showing it is, in my mind, sweeping the well-documented asocial, asshole behavior of many cops under the carpet. Copaganda, essentially.
I think we agree? My point is that this movie does not depict it in a negative light, which is gross. Showing it because it’s ‘realistic’ is likely self-fufilling, showing it as commentary is very different from how sexploitation films usually operate.