Review of Alexandra's Project (2003) by James H — 06 Apr 2010

A miss-guided feminist story line portraying a hapless man as an overbearing, insensitive, oppressing monster who drives his wife into insanity, prostitution, violence, crime, and deranged psychotic revenge. But, that's not the worst part of the movie. Through out this dimly lit movie (quite annoying) you are waiting for something to happen but nothing ever does, the climax is ridiculous and unsatisfying. Immediately after the movie was over, I wanted the 100 minutes of my life back that I just spent watching this drivel.

My guess is that this Writer/Director wanted to atone for all of Man's sins toward women. The problem is that he is an idiot and cannot tell a story. This poor man has to answer and pay for all of Man's sins and transgressions against the opposite sex since we hopped down out of the trees. The director goes out of his way to portray the man, as a hard-working husband who genuinely loves his children and wife and is a good provider. He keeps in shape, doesn't over drink, or stay out late or have affairs. When his son runs into a door jam he stops and comforts the boy. When his daughter urges him to stop smoking, he puts out his cigarette and is sensitive to the fact that she cares enough about him to urge him to quit and responses with action that shows he cares what she thinks and wishes to please her. This man has feelings. I believe that we are all responsible for our own actions. We cannot blame an alcohol problem or mental health issues or even unhappiness on our partner, or children. If this woman felt unloved or felt like just a toy or an object it is her responsibility to express this feelings with words and actions. People are not mind readers. When you do not feel well, you go to a doctor and explain the symptoms and seek treatment or a cure that will help or alleviate the problem, you do not let the illness fester and go untreated, because then it worsens or worse...you die. The same goes for inner turmoil as well. Left untreated the problem grows in size until it is larger then you and starts to infect those around you as well. This is irresponsible and immoral, as it negatively impacts people that cannot access a cure, because the problem does not lay with them. Rather then going psychotic and becoming a prostitute and destroying her husband and the mental health of her innocent children, perhaps she should have actually spoken with her husband regarding her unhappiness, suggested therapy or even gotten a divorce? She did have options. Destroying lives because you are insane and selfish and unhappy is just that....insane. I can imagine the writer thinking that women around the world were going to rejoice and embrace this movie as a kind of righteous activist feminist movie but it is bogus, one-dimensional and feels phony and contrived. I am going to sue this Writer/Director as soon as a can get to a phone. I may go to Australia and seek this Director out and beat him with a stick, just to snap his mind out of it's funk. Harsh booing.