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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Red_Pill

It is available to watch on Amazon Instant Video for those of you with Amazon Prime.

Basically it is about Men's Right's Activists. It was made by a female self proclaimed feminist who doesn't seem nearly so certain about proclaiming herself to be a feminist by the films end. She basically spends the film interviewing with various MRA leaders and activists.

Only a couple of feminists were interviewed. Notably "Big Red" the incredibly obnoxious feminist (just google "big red feminist") gets a very brief interview. Big Red is basically a living breathing cartoon like representation of radical feminism, but she is a real person. I had never heard of her before watching this, but damn was she ever just downright unlikable and unsympathetic in every conceivable way. She is not someone who should be in any way representing feminism. She is the perfect representation of bad feminism.

I thought it was pretty interesting to be honest. Even more interesting was how much people have made a fuss about this movie for nonsensical reasons. It is all covered in the Wikipedia page.

It definitely has its faults as a documentary and could really benefit from a follow up film to cover various counter points and get a more balanced view. It sounds like this documentary was mainly meant to cover the personal journey of the filmmaker as she uncovered what MRAs are all about. Ultimately it ends with the filmmaker no longer being comfortable with calling herself a feminist.

It also only briefly mentions the reddit page "the red pill" that it shares its title with. Basically this highlights a big fault of the film in that it chooses to highlight the more favorable aspects of MRAs. Though the filmmaker admits to having many negative perceptions of MRAs at the beginning and the process of the film is her dismantling those initial negative perceptions. I still think it would have helped if she examined where those negative perceptions come from in both real and imagined aspects.
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just tell them all your base doesn't belong to us because we were getting stoned...they'll understand-Ken156