War Zone is a controversial new documentary by Maggie Hadleigh-West that seeks to investigate, through confrontational interviews, aggresive male behavior toward women in public places.
I haven't seen this film yet, but I am looking for it (anyone have a copy) and would like to hear from anyone that has seen it.
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Hey ~
have posted this for quite a while ... Have you managed to see it?
I think it is a very eloquent way to convey the way women are seen by men and often times by themselves in public spaces. Not all public spaces are as intimidating and invading as New Orleans, see it as a caricature, but I think it does the trick in that it makes the point.
It is hard to make the case for an issue when it is evasive, hardly noticeable. But when it is in your face all the time, you can easily put your finger on it.
I haven't seen it yet Bori, still looking... I'll pass along your announcement from the top of your weblog.
Peace from the US
See it as a "caricature," said Bori??
my my, careful with the words you choose, that is diminishing a societal ill that is not presented in this film in an exaggerated, absurdist way at all, but AS IS. I grew up in New York City, so I won't speak about suburban or rural areas, although of course this behavior is to be found everywhere, and it is irrespective of race, nationality, or class (though more education makes for somewhat less of it, sure- it is idiotic behavior, so naturally; but it is also about power and insensitivity, and men from any walk of life can be emotionally blunt or succumb to the sadistic itch to dominate). But in terms of the incidence of harassment a woman can encounter on any given day that Hadleigh-West's film indicates, there is no propaganda at play here. In Reality, it is to a woman, has been to me, something overwhelming, amazing in its ignorance and incessancy, absurd in its incessancy, expected to occur many times a day every single day. It can never be eradicated because there will always be human trash, that is the way of the world, and there will always be power games- but to the degree it happens, that can and must change. There is no difference between what women face every day in myriad forms and being called a nigger or chink or spic at any unexpected moment, to have to live under the constant threat of having your peace disturbed, your inner life broken into, and to be expected to take it. It is not to be tolerated, it is abominable, and that will become common knowledge in due time, too late for countless women, but in due time.
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