
Where Are the Women? Danny Collins
It’s never too late for a man to earn redemption for his selfish ways… not when he has women to show him the way to humanity.

It’s never too late for a man to earn redemption for his selfish ways… not when he has women to show him the way to humanity.

Little more than the standard woman-in-peril thriller, but worse, because it robs the woman of the bit of agency these sorts of movies usually grant her.

That a young girl’s emotions are used to tell a story about universal human experience is something new, a paradigm-smashing win for female representation.

The only female character here may be intelligent and capable… but she is often treated as a decorative object in a way that her male colleagues aren’t.

Women suffer, but their pain is not the point of the story, and their pain is nowhere as important as the pain a man suffers as a result of women’s pain.

Though the subjects of the film are men in a male-dominated field, the filmmakers include interviews with female authorities to lend us historical context.

The most significant female character here is the male protagonist’s girlfriend, who “appears” only as a voice on the phone in a faraway city.

“Jokey” adolescent misogyny and a “she’s just the girlfriend” negatively impact the horror genre’s typically fairly good representation of women.

One complex female character in the ensemble, driven by career ambitions as well as romantic ones, saves the film from scoring more poorly than it does.

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