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In these early scenes, the female director, Coralie Fargeat, lays the cheesecake shots on thick.
There, Fargeat must have thought, Michael Bay couldnt have done it better!
Soon all three men are forced into a murderous cover-up mode.
Gradually, the point of view shifts.
The men will become the objects.
Two of those gazing male eyes will be gouged out theres a signpost for you.
When the French do it, though, its regarded as French Extreme deconstructionism and hailed by academics.
Its also being pitched as the first post-#MeToo female horror film.
The problem is that you could predict nearly everything Fargeat is going to do with her received vocabulary.
Prepare to be not surprised.
Fargeat doesnt linger on or eroticize the violence against her heroine.
This isnt torture porn.
)Revenges males arent slobbering gits.
Jen, meanwhile, is fighting to save her own life as much as to take vengeance.
This is not about Making Her Day.
Shes bloody and mangled, forced into hellish self-surgery with the aid of some handy peyote.
Her kills arent clean and easy.
Some guys need alotof killing.
Even fighting ferociously, the men look ridiculous.
As well they should.
That said, why should men have all the fun?
The movie is like Ladies Night at a sleaze-o bar.
