In the Company of Men (1997)
Country: US
Technical: col 97m
Director: Neil Labute
Cast: Aaron Eckhart, Stacy Edwards, Matt Malloy
Synopsis:
Finance employees resolve to get even with the female sex by jointly dating a shy, deaf typist in their temporary office building, and then letting her down hard.
Review:
Misogyny this barefaced has rarely been filmed before for fear of totally sacrificing sympathy for the characters - there's no self-mocking device like Alfie's audience complicity here, nor does the Eckhart character fall in love with his target as in Les Liaisons Dangereuses. Instead he emerges as a shattering example of unprovoked hate; like Patrick Bateman very much a late twentieth century emblem/victim of consumer greed. LaBute sets the film ticking like a clock towards its foregone conclusion and we are powerless to stop the awful joke being played for our supposed amusement. A pity the dialogue is so mumbled as to be inaudible at times, an unintended irony as it happens.
Country: US
Technical: col 97m
Director: Neil Labute
Cast: Aaron Eckhart, Stacy Edwards, Matt Malloy
Synopsis:
Finance employees resolve to get even with the female sex by jointly dating a shy, deaf typist in their temporary office building, and then letting her down hard.
Review:
Misogyny this barefaced has rarely been filmed before for fear of totally sacrificing sympathy for the characters - there's no self-mocking device like Alfie's audience complicity here, nor does the Eckhart character fall in love with his target as in Les Liaisons Dangereuses. Instead he emerges as a shattering example of unprovoked hate; like Patrick Bateman very much a late twentieth century emblem/victim of consumer greed. LaBute sets the film ticking like a clock towards its foregone conclusion and we are powerless to stop the awful joke being played for our supposed amusement. A pity the dialogue is so mumbled as to be inaudible at times, an unintended irony as it happens.
Country: US
Technical: col 97m
Director: Neil Labute
Cast: Aaron Eckhart, Stacy Edwards, Matt Malloy
Synopsis:
Finance employees resolve to get even with the female sex by jointly dating a shy, deaf typist in their temporary office building, and then letting her down hard.
Review:
Misogyny this barefaced has rarely been filmed before for fear of totally sacrificing sympathy for the characters - there's no self-mocking device like Alfie's audience complicity here, nor does the Eckhart character fall in love with his target as in Les Liaisons Dangereuses. Instead he emerges as a shattering example of unprovoked hate; like Patrick Bateman very much a late twentieth century emblem/victim of consumer greed. LaBute sets the film ticking like a clock towards its foregone conclusion and we are powerless to stop the awful joke being played for our supposed amusement. A pity the dialogue is so mumbled as to be inaudible at times, an unintended irony as it happens.