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there are a lot of films opening on
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Christmas Day some of them I think are
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Christmas and then some of them might
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not be Christmas uh appropriate and this
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is the one if you are a single woman on
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Christmas day you're not dating anyone
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or seeing anybody and you're alone you
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might want to see baby girl
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babe girl is the the story of a a female
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executive the CEO of a tech company
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played by Nicole Kidman and she runs
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this company and an intern they bring in
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interns and intern they assign the
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interns each to someone at the company
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and a young intern a male very
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attractive male played by Harris
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Dickinson plays a woman a man named
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Samuel who is enthralled with Romy
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played by Nicole Kidman who has a
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beautiful family he's married to Jacob
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played by Antonio Banderas and Samuel
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takes an interest in her he identifies
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something about her that she likes to be
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told what to do which leads into
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a I would describe as a 50 Shades of
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Gray type of relationship between Samuel
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and Romy they keep it secret so there's
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there's cheating involved and there
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there are U there is a lot of aberant
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sex or what I would say is a
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Tuesday uh just some experiment just
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some fun role play um Samuel makes her
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lick uh milk out of a dish on the floor
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he uh is basically in command of her
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telling her what to do what to drink
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drink they then have this relation it's
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kept secret in the office so they're at
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a an office party and you can see from
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across the room he still has a powerful
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impact uh on her and Romy is quite taken
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and and Nicole Kidman I gotta say looks
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phenomenal yes she gets very in various
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stages of undress and uh she looks
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fantastic um unbelievable she is aged
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like fine wine so this it's a May
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December relationship older woman
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younger man and it begins to spiral
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because we all as we all know all will
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be revealed and the consequences of that
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it's it's an erotic Thriller and we've
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kind of seen this before but the power
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by Dynamic being that she is the older
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woman not just the older woman she's the
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boss he is the subordinate
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because traditionally It's usually the
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male boss female subordinate that that
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is at play and they even um make
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reference to that in it
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um the the trailer is very
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provocative uh I I really wanted to love
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this movie I did enjoy uh while I like
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seeing how it would play out I did like
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that but I I think that there are better
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um around the same kind of thing
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although I I gotta say I love Nicole
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Kidman I think she's fantastic um I I'll
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Reserve judgment for a second Allan what
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did you think of baby girl yeah I mean I
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I guess I like I I don't think the we
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are the audience for this movie I I I
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was gonna say it's it's older single
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women yeah that are alone on Christmas
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and I I'll tell you why because this
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would you consider this a modern
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feminist tale uh it's written and
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directed by a woman of it no parts of it
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yes 100% feminist but but see what this
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does is this sets up a an argument a
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discussion about feminism that um you
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know it's kind of like men will have a
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hard time trying to describe because it
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presents you know you know the the
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current feminist uh model is the strong
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powerful woman uh and this movie goes
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out of its way to show that ju position
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that Nicole kimman is a strong powerful
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woman yet when it comes to intimacy when
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it comes to romance when it comes to uh
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sexual pleasure she is the she is the
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submissive uh in this dominant
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submissive relationship and um and so
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this this strong uh Brave woman that she
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is portrayed to be on the outside is
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being uh is being challenged constantly
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because as as she fulfills her sexual
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desires through this uh submissive
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dominant submissive relationship it kind
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of affects the way she runs her company
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or the you know and um you know and the
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the guy here Samuel he's he's not a bad
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guy in this movie at all I think ladies
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will fall in love with him um and and so
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I think the thing that I walked away
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with when the movie ended was what am I
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supposed to think about feminism at this
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point uh what am I supposed to think
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about it because I you know I could go
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back to the traditional Norms of
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feminism you know the male Hunter the
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woman who who uh takes care of the house
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um this is the discussion I would like
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to have after seeing this movie with
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someone without fear of getting
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cancelled uh and and I I wonder if we
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can have that conversation and of me
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feels like we can't have that
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conversation and therefore this movie is
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kind of a bust for me one of the biggest
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lines in the movie is when she like
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basically uh she reprimands one of one
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of her uh uh subordinates about about
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this very Behavior dating someone in the
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office yet she's doing it yeah so that's
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probably one of the best scenes but it's
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you see the hypocrisy so I'll say this
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probably either either the best date
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movie to give you ideas or the Worst
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Date Movie because of the dynamic so uh
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I I I kind of want to not recommend this
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movie The only thing that puts it over
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like is Nicole Kidman so I give it a six
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out of 10 and say like know what you're
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this is not to take the family to at all
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so a fa feel like yeah I would recommend
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it I feel like I mean part of it we
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talked about the nudity um what
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I like in this is that uh Helena rain
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who is the ri director she she built her
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way up to the nudity if you know what I
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mean it's it's not like they they start
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off and she just strips everything off
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um they tease they tease a lot until you
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get to the end I mean there's there's
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thought there's storytelling thought
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when in that um and again I think my
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biggest frustration with this is uh I
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after watching the movie I want to talk
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about it um but it's you know you're
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depending on the company you're with
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you're not g to talk about it without
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getting cancelled uh right and and I
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miss having just honest deep
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conversations to say what is feminism
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today what is the role of feminism and
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how does it relate in this movie and I
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feel like most people will not be able
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to have that conversation which means
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that this movie is bust so a be
