Pink Asparagus

4/5

Courtesy of TIFF

Anna Kendrick’s Woman of the Hour promotes the idea that we should always be nervous about trusting men. Sure, nobody is really going to get into a car with a random guy and drive out into the middle of nowhere anymore. And I would already be against letting a random man into my apartment to help me bring in furniture. I would certainly never trust a man who just says what he thinks I want to hear. But at every point this movie just drives home the point that men are unpredictable, manipulative and violent. At a crucial moment, a network makeup artist notes that all the questions women ask men just boil down to the sentiment of “will he hurt me”? And it’s true, men are violent, sometimes physically, other times through considering your fear as an overreaction or punishing you for having boundaries. So @ women: just make sure the next time you go anywhere with a man you don’t really know, you have some sort of mace.

Here is a link to a keychain size of coyote attack deterrent on Amazon. If I was Anna Kendrick, I would’ve made Woman of the Hour merch that was just very cute self defence tools. It would be on sale on the way out of the theatre. I guess Bottoms could’ve done that too.

Anyways, it was a great movie honestly, with solid takeaways.