I just watched one of the worst movies ever. I share my opinion only because I want you to watch it as well and see if you relate or if you are repulsed. Some of you might’ve seen it before. The title sounded familiar and its for that reason that I let the movie take my evening away from me. There was an award given to the filmmaker. It was released in 1997. I usually don’t blast movies because they are supposed to leave you in a mood. The director and writer don’t do a good job of potraying the comedy to this dark comedy though, and as a result it comes off as a serious film, and leaves a bad taste in the viewers mouth. Do not let your girlsfriends watch this movie. It will only add to the man hate already happening. This is fuel to the fire. That said, if you do watch it, try to figure out which of the two guys you are more like, Chad or Howard, and get back at me.
I might have to start a new column where I share these discoveries with you. This is an insult to misogynists everywhere. Not approved.
In The Company Of Men
The Wiki Below explains the plot better than I could: Synopsis
Chad (Eckhart) and Howard (Malloy) are two middle management employees at a corporation, temporarily assigned to a branch office away from home for several weeks. Embittered by bad experiences with women, they form a revenge scheme to find an insecure woman, romance her simultaneously, and then break up with her at the same time. Chad, who is cruel, manipulative, duplicitous, and abusive to his subordinates, is the originator and driving force behind the scheme, while Howard is the more passive of the two, which leads to a later conflict with the scheme. Chad decides upon Christine (Edwards), a deaf coworker who is so self-conscious that she wears headphones so people, thinking that she is listening to music, are compelled to get her attention visually or tactically without immediately learning that she is deaf. Chad and Howard decide to each ask her out, and over the course of several weeks, date her simultaneously. Chad eventually sleeps with her, and Christine falls in love with him. When Christine eventually breaks this news to Howard, Howard tells Christine the truth about their scheme, and tells her that he loves her. Christine is shocked by the revelation, and refuses to believe that Chad would do this. When she confronts Chad, Chad admits the truth. Christine angrily slaps Chad, but Chad is unashamed of his behavior, and cruelly taunts Christine, who collapses into tears after he leaves her. Weeks later, Howard confronts Chad back home at his apartment. Chad, despite having previously told Howard that his girlfriend, Suzanne, had left him, shows him that she is still there, asleep in his bed, having never left him. Chad asks Howard how it feels to have truly hurt someone. Howard, who had never done anything like that before, leaves, mortified and nauseated. Howard later sees Christine working at a bank, and tries to speak to her, but she ignores him. He loudly pleads with her to “listen” to him, but his pleas literally fall on deaf ears.
[edit] Reception
The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival.[2] The film currently has an 88% Fresh rating at the movie review aggregate site Rotten Tomatoes, with 46 out of 52 critics rating it “Fresh”.[3]
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