Cassie Jaye, who has previously directed. This entry was posted in Don Schwartz Spotlight on Documentaries by Don Schwartz. 334 A feminist film-maker has been criticised for deciding to make a documentary about men’s rights activists that takes a balanced approach. Cassie Jaye has become quite adept at creating and dispensing these red pills. They challenge us with information we don’t want to hear, to accept. This is what the best of issue-based documentary films do. Yes, there are misogynistic members of this movement, but Jaye reveals that the movement’s core issues are valid and deserve much more attention. These clips enable us skeptics to be open to her conclusions-they make this red pill more bio-available. She documents her internal struggles with the information she is receiving. The Red Pill chronicles filmmaker Cassie Jayes journey following the mysterious and polarizing Mens Rights Movement. Jaye peppers her film with clips from the ‘video diary’ she made during filming. I am passionate about women’s rights, and bemoan the many ways men mistreat and discriminate against the female gender-a worldwide phenomenon which seems registered in us males’ genes. I was skeptical that Jaye was going to convince me of the virtues of this movement. Jaye emerged from her fall down this rabbit hole with a radically changed view of this movement, and of gender issues. She decided to see if her perception was accurate, and spent a year speaking with leaders and followers of the movement. The Red Pill challenges the audience to pull back the veil, question societal norms, and expose themselves to an alternate perspective on gender equality, power. Jaye saw the Men’s Rights Movement as dominated by hate-filled misogynists promoting misogynistic policies and behaviors. But, I’d seen her first two feature docs, Daddy I Do and The Right to Love: An American Family, and understood that’s Jaye’s way. When I first learned of Jaye’s latest project I was confused and befuddled about why she would tackle this seemingly non sequitur, politically-incorrect subject. Jaye decided to learn the core issues of something most of us have little to no knowledge about-the Men’s Rights Movement. In my introduction to Telling Their Own Stories: Conversations with Documentary Filmmakers I compared the watching of documentaries to taking The Matrix’s ‘red pill’ the act of which indicates the taker is committed to seeing the world as it is-not as they imagine or wish, just as it is.Ĭassie Jaye’s latest release, The Red Pill, is well-titled.

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