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[meganbmoore]

I am adopting a new policy: In the future, I shall immediately reject period dramas/movies about women that begin with a man's narration explaining her to to viewer, especially when the framing is used to tell us what the narrative's stance on her is from the outset.

I feel this will save me from much Fail.

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[paperclipchains]

But then how will you report the fail to us?

[meganbmoore]

I will have more time freed to watch good/fun things (while this policy will no doubt deprive me of some of the same, experience tells me that it' will be the minority of rejections) and will report on those instead.

And it's not like there won't still be plenty of other Fail out there.

[ambergold]

...I think I would agree.

[dangermousie]

Anything in particular that brought this on? It seems fairly specific and I am secretly curious about horrific fail :)

[meganbmoore]

I WISH it was just a particular movie, but unfortunately, at least 2-out-of-3 historical movies about women these days (real or fictional) seem to open with a man explaining what the woman was like as a child/when he met her, or giving us his personal opinions of her. (The most recent offenders were The Countess and The Affair of the Necklace, neither of which I finished.)

[irishninja]

This sounds like a very good policy. It's unfortunate that you have to have it. :\