Review of Extract (2009) by Chads. — 05 Sep 2009
Not satisfied with just one instance of a woman behaving badly: the boss' wife who sleeps with a lunkhead, "Extract" gives the moviegoer a second disreputable woman: the golddigging temp who dates a blue collar hick for his insurance money.
My problem with the cheating wife narrative is this: the man she has an affair with isn't good enough for her. The other man should be somebody she would leave her husband for. Her equal. The filmmaker owes it to this stay-at-home working woman.
What she is put through, without her causing more of a ruckus, makes this wife seem too codependent on her partner. The cuckolded husband never truly suffers the consequences of his domestic intrigue(to be fair, he was high), which is evidenced by the magnanimity he showers upon the pool boy, in the form of a job.
When the wife hears about this hiring, she should leave him, because a man who truly loves a woman, wouldn't be able to bear the sight of the other man on a daily basis. He forgives her, but should she forgive him? And then, there's the golddigging temp, the boss' reparation for compromising his wife's morals.
Opposed to the boss' wife, who at least gets to be flawed, the grifter is just plain bad, without any redeemable characteristics. She is the "tramp" that the bartender mishears from the extract factory boss.
(The film itself utters a Freudian slip.) "Extract" is misogynistic because even the good girl gets to be bad. To remedy the film's notion that all women are tramps, the golddigging temp needed one good trait, to show that bad women are capable of being in flux too, not just the good ones.
This review of Extract (2009) was written by Chads. on 05 Sep 2009.
Extract has generally received mixed reviews.
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