Comments on: Cinema’s Formula for Awards & Festivals: The Humiliation and Vilification of Men

By: Film Industry Watch

Film Industry Watch — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 10:30:55 +0000

In reply to Valeriya.

Thank you for your comment. First – women’s perspectives absolutely belong on screen, full stop. The critique isn’t “don’t let women shine.” It’s that too many buzzy titles get there by flattening men into predators, cowards, or punchlines. That shortcut doesn’t make women stronger; it just swaps one cartoon for another.

Second, strength doesn’t require a foil made of straw. Women can be powerful, complicated leads without the men around them being uniformly weak or vile. When movies treat “masculinity” itself as the problem, stories shrink: women become symbols, men become case studies.

Third, complexity is the real win. Let women be brilliant, wrong, tender, ruthless full spectrum human. Let men be the same. We can call out genuine harm (and we should) without turning half the human race into set dressing for a thesis. If the only way a film knows to elevate women is to humiliate men, it’s admitting it doesn’t trust its own heroine.

No one’s asking to “polish men’s armor.” We’re asking for better writing: stories where women shine as themselves and where male characters aren’t sanded down to a single, tedious note. That’s not protecting feelings, that’s protecting cinema.

By: Valeriya

Valeriya — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 10:14:42 +0000

Excuse me, sirs, is it allowed for women’s perspectives and experiences to make it on screen? Or nothing that may hurt your feelings? How would you like to be profoundly pictured if you (not all of you, some of you) are never weak, flaky, rude, aggressive, abusive, disrespectful, taking your privileges for granted and so on, but always flat gorgeous in every way? Do you mean it’s time for filmmakers and up to them to polish your shining armor now?

By: Bill Blass

Bill Blass — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 14:39:34 +0000

Amazing essay, I wish more people would have the patience/attention/reasoning skills to read it. One thought though, your reference to the NYT article “Men, where have you gone?” actually supports the theme of your article. It mentions how boys/mens intuitions have been broken down, like the yMca is co-ed and Boy Scouts throttled etc., where the Girl Scouts and the yWca remains only for females etc.

True that the NYT article may be a lonely voice in the darkness for their org as a whole, but it was a welcomed article that pointed to various reasons and possible solutions to turn this sinking ship around without intentionally enraging/polarizing “influencers” be part of the solution.

Saving this article…soooooo many good data points in it TYVM!

By: ROBERT IOLINI

ROBERT IOLINI — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 03:07:12 +0000

Thank you for this important essay. As a filmmaker working outside the ‘industry’, and thus not bound by the rules of the game, I have the freedom to portray each human in my films as having a nuanced multi faceted personality. In the end, I guess it’s up to each individual actor, filmmaker, director, or producer to make the necessary moral choice.

By: Clara Voss

Clara Voss — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 17:38:40 +0000

What’s most disheartening is the astonishing intellectual shallowness of these so-called artists, festival programmers, and the entire apparatus surrounding them. Their engagement with these complex subject matters is remarkably superficial. The films mentioned above are not profound explorations of the human condition but rather the opposite, hollow displays of ideological dogma, showcasing a fundamental lack of genuine insight into the depth and nuance of human experience. Still, they are celebrated by the mainstream as the highest form of the art, what a complete farce.

By: Davit Ghvaladze

Davit Ghvaladze — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 17:40:45 +0000

Very thoughtful take on a hot topic where the mass media reluctantly stands with a blindfold, denying to shed a light on the real consequences of this vile culture and like a parrot only talking about one side of the story.
A brave voice has created this post for all and I stand in support for both men and women to take 1 hour to slowly digest this post and understand where we are today and wish to be tomorrow.