I expect this movie will received, potential, based on the age and experiences of the viewer. Witnessing the utter failure of so many people to answer a seemingly obvious question was for me very painful, and maybe the sensation is better described with a different word but that's all I have at the moment.
Street interviews are interesting as they appear to be the most random, and therefore also can be the most chaotic. Protest interviews should have exposed the inner thoughts of those who feel deeply about what they were marching for -- but all I saw were mob-mentality lemmings either just looking for something to do, or some level of peer pressure had compelled them to participate. Most of the professionals participating were nauseatingly evasive with their responses, leaving me guessing between them actually not knowing the answer to something at the core of something which they are teaching and/or counseling about, or they are forced to tow some party line which leaves them inarticulate on the subject.
I am a son raised with a sister, mother, grandmothers and female cousins, who is a husband father and grandfather, and I'm grateful for all the women in my life. I began the movie having not deliberately thought through the question, simply because it felt obvious. So I had to pause the movie after maybe 20-mins so I could sort this out. Is this really such a difficult question? And it turns out the answer for me is very straight forward ... at the most fundamental level, everyone should agree the purpose of any organism is to reproduce; in the example of humans, they are parsed into xx-xy chromosomes for sex-determination and therefore the men sire in reproduction and women conceive and delivery offspring (of course setting aside suffering from reproductive system problems). Having an answer for myself, I finished watching the movie.
Maybe the answer to the question itself will impact the perspective of viewers of the movie. Maybe confusion comes from varying vague definitions of gender philosophy and if that's what is important to you, then you may take in different feelings from this movie than I did. My wife and I have been together over 40yrs -- I am not confused about being a man, she is not confused about being a woman. This movie left me making the assumption that anyone not able to resolve this confusion will never be able to have a satisfactory relationship, and that's a shame. I love being a husband, father, and grandfather and this movie helps me have assurance in that.
Street interviews are interesting as they appear to be the most random, and therefore also can be the most chaotic. Protest interviews should have exposed the inner thoughts of those who feel deeply about what they were marching for -- but all I saw were mob-mentality lemmings either just looking for something to do, or some level of peer pressure had compelled them to participate. Most of the professionals participating were nauseatingly evasive with their responses, leaving me guessing between them actually not knowing the answer to something at the core of something which they are teaching and/or counseling about, or they are forced to tow some party line which leaves them inarticulate on the subject.
I am a son raised with a sister, mother, grandmothers and female cousins, who is a husband father and grandfather, and I'm grateful for all the women in my life. I began the movie having not deliberately thought through the question, simply because it felt obvious. So I had to pause the movie after maybe 20-mins so I could sort this out. Is this really such a difficult question? And it turns out the answer for me is very straight forward ... at the most fundamental level, everyone should agree the purpose of any organism is to reproduce; in the example of humans, they are parsed into xx-xy chromosomes for sex-determination and therefore the men sire in reproduction and women conceive and delivery offspring (of course setting aside suffering from reproductive system problems). Having an answer for myself, I finished watching the movie.
Maybe the answer to the question itself will impact the perspective of viewers of the movie. Maybe confusion comes from varying vague definitions of gender philosophy and if that's what is important to you, then you may take in different feelings from this movie than I did. My wife and I have been together over 40yrs -- I am not confused about being a man, she is not confused about being a woman. This movie left me making the assumption that anyone not able to resolve this confusion will never be able to have a satisfactory relationship, and that's a shame. I love being a husband, father, and grandfather and this movie helps me have assurance in that.