Hustlers

[telophase]

myrialux and I went to see Hustlers tonight, and enjoyed it even more than
we thought we would. And we are boggling at the (male) critics who are all
WHATS MISSING FROM THIS MOVIE IS THE STORY OF THE MENZ WHO WERE VICTIMIZED*
because how the fuck could you not realize that this is a movie about
female friendship and the men who got hustled are just set dressing? Oh
yes: because you are a man who doesn’t understand that women have lives
outside of men.

Anyway, the movie is shot entirely from a female POV: you start at the club
on Destiny’s first night there, when she’s unsure and feeling like an
outsider, and then Ramona, and the movie, welcomes both her and the camera
in, and it’s shot like you’re one of the group. You see women dancing for
men, but never from the men’s POV, and almost all the men are observers, on
the outside, sitting there slack-jawed or throwing money at the women
thinking that it makes them in charge when they’re the ones getting screwed.

Anyway. Recommended. Unless you’re an emetophobe because unfortunately one
of the side characters has a nervous stomach, alas.


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https://www.themarysue.com/hustlers-review-asks-for-male-justice/amp/

Comments

[lilysea]

Anyway. Recommended. Unless you’re an emetophobe because unfortunately one
of the side characters has a nervous stomach, alas.

Thanks for the warning. I was all hyped up to see this film, but if there's not just one incident but multiple incidents of vomiting, that REALLY dims my enthusiasm.

[telophase]

Yeah, unfortunately it happens multiple times—every time one of the women gets nervous she hurls. The camera doesn’t linger, IIRC (I look away every time that happens), but it happens at least 5 or 6 times.

[havocthecat]

IT IS NOT ABOUT THE MEN HOW HARD IS THAT TO FIGURE OUT? HOW HARD?

[telophase]

BUT WHO IS HE SUPPOSED TO IDENTIFY WITH?

[havocthecat]

How can he identify with women. HOW? Femmebots are alien creatures. ALIEN!

[golden_bastet]

You know, I don't get to see a lot of movies right now, and I heard that the movie was only so-so.

You have just made me want to go sneak out and catch it...

[telophase]

We waited this long to see it because we were sort of iffy on it, and went because we wanted to get out of the house, and enjoyed it way more than we expected, once we figured out that it was from the women's POV and that we weren't going to get exploitative camera angles. :D