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Review: What is a Woman? - 2022

 

Story - Matt Walsh of The Daily Wire travels around the world to ask one of the biggest questions of this generation.

Cast - Matt Walsh

Crew - Justin Folk (Director)

Runtime - 95 minutes

         
What is a woman? A woman is someone who claims that as their identity.

After two years of the pandemic, many theater chains and venues are struggling to put people in their seats, it is harder than ever to get a group of 150–200 people to sit quietly and watch a drama, comedy, or even horror movie, surprisingly, one category of film that has seen a consistent demographic to show up are "conservative" or "right-wing" movies. This is not a new phenomenon, there have always been movies whose primary audiences were conservative, republican, and white throughout history, but this new era of filmmaking has been growing and gaining more attention after the release of the 2023 movie 'Sound of Freedom'. The supposed documentary 'What is a Woman?' is part of this category. 

One could sit and argue about its content and subject, after all, it is incredibly easy to disprove, ridicule, and fact-check the lies and statements made during the film, but instead, I will focus on some key aspects of the movie.

I acknowledge that documentaries don't need to be objective, and they can always be in service of a main point that they want to demonstrate, in this case, a specific definition of what a woman is, the problem starts with the disingenuous and alright propagandistic language that is presented to the viewer, an audience that, if I may speak from experience, is very easy to manipulate once you present them that "they are the chosen ones and the people that are truly enlightened by the REAL truth." Instead of using this opportunity to create a dialogue, and understand different perspectives Matt Walsh takes this pedantic, condescending and rude personality and acts as if he is not doing anything wrong, making the whole picture not only uncomfortable to the viewer because they are seeing a person being shitty towards people that are being genuine but also uncomfortable to the people being interviewed.

This is by design, the target audience already believes they are in the right and everyone else is taking crazy pills, there is only one truth, the one conservatives believe, no other opinion is worth their time, and instead, it should be ridiculed.

What is a Woman? Is not worth watching by anyone unless you want to analyze how propaganda is distributed, shown, and depicted in the 21st century, it is a poor attempt to make a statement and arrives at a definition that not only leaves thousands and millions of women outside this specific definition but is also very childish, simplistic and empty. At the end of the day, Transwomen are women, and this is a thing that nobody can deny or take away from them, not a dictionary, not the government, and certainly not a pathetic and disgusting white man.

         

Final Score - .5/5

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