(re)Search my Trash

<body> <div align="left"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" width="800" cellpadding="0" height="100%"> <tr> <td width="100" rowspan="3" background="../stylepix/square.gif" valign="top">  </td> <td width="4" rowspan="3"></td> <td width="592" valign="top">  </td> <td width="4" rowspan="3"></td> <td width="100" rowspan="3" background="../stylepix/squareright.gif" valign="top">  </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="592" valign="top">    <p>Trevor (Jon Briddell) finds Harrison (Jonathan Bennett), a total stranger to him, sitting on the sidewalk, heartbroken ... and it doesn't take him long to guess it was because of a woman. He gives him his card and promises him a pep talk on how to win his power back from the woman who has wronged him and women in general ...<p>Three years later: Trevor is running underground seminars on how to treat women - meaning how to turn them into submissives, and like it even. The highlight of these seminars usually is him showing how he abuses his girlfriend-of-sorts Cheryl (Alia Raelynn), and how she still sticks to him no matter what, even if he at times offers him to his students to fuck. Harrison has meanwhile become his favourite protégé, and the guy who lures new students to his seminars. He also totally believes in Trevor's misoginist view of the world ... and yet he has a girlfriend, April (Danielle Lozeau), a devout catholic who hasn't let him shag her in the three years they've been together, not until their wedding night. Trevor is all for this relationship, but only if Harrison promises to tear her open, sexually, in their wedding night - and Harrison promises to do so, too ... but slowly but surely doubts arise regarding Trevor's actual motives, the actual root of his misogynism, and if behind all his (very evocative) big words there is actually any truth - but by now it might already be too late ...<p> <p><b>Misogynist</b>, described by its director as "the antidote to all the <i>Fifty Shades of Grey</i>-mania" - which is very much true, it's about dominance and submission gone wrong, about blunt sexism (if sugarcoated by a well-spoken character), and about broken characters who don't look for romance in their relationships, just about taking home a short term win - which is not only true in their lovelife even, also in Trevor's seminars and the like. But all that said, this is not a brain-heavy movie, but rather a well-structured little thriller with some great setpieces and a finale that definitely comes unexpected, but at the same time gives good closure to all character arcs and even has some tongue-in-cheek quality to it (though I wonder if anybody notices). And add to that solid performances and a subtle directorial effort, and you get a pretty good movie, actually, and well worth a look! <p>  </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="592" valign="top">  <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> currentyear = "2015"; </SCRIPT> <SCRIPT language="JavaScript" src="../scripts/endcredits.js"></SCRIPT> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> dosworsdonn(); </SCRIPT> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </body>