Whoever said movies can’t change your life, hasn’t sat through this fascinating documentary from writer/director Jennifer Siebel Newsom. The film explores the way women are treated in the media – how they are portrayed in movies, how they are objectified in advertising, how they are belittled in politics and places of power and, ultimately, how women today are fighting to change the way the world treats them. The film may get a little preachy at time, although that may depending on one’s personal level of enlightenment about the issues being brought up, but the topics are varied enough, and told in enough different styles, to keep you from ever being bored. By the end of the film you may be inspired to get off the couch and do something, or you may just use the remote to turn something else on. Either way, the fact remains that after you view it, you just can’t look at the world the same way again.
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