I’m tapping out. All women aren’t victims & all men aren’t closet misogynist serial killers. I tapped out after first hour of In The Cut because seriously it is so gyny (TM Sarah Vincent). Seriously Jane Campion-the movie is shot kind of beautifully, but cliche. The edges are blurry & out of focus. All things female are light red or pink. Women are needy & constantly threatened thus slightly aroused by the nature of their predicament while also shocked & wide-eyed albeit discussing sexual vernacular street slang with their underage students in bars. All men are sexual or violent. Then there are erect penises, explicit oral sex & a lighthouse drawn on a blackboard. Eyeroll. You’re edgy. We get it. So WHAT???? Give me a real story. Then you trot out the cliche of the macho man who is sensitive to Meg Ryan’s efforts to be a bad girl, now called pulling a Miley, I mean *ahem* that all he wants to do is fulfill her sexual needs, but could he be bad??? I kind of don’t care. Here’s an idea: give me a well rounded, three-dimensional male AND female character instead of caricatures or stereotypes with an interesting story instead of a cliche serial killer whodunnit then you can litter the place with violence & explicit sexual situations as much as you want. I’ll write you a note & give you permission. It is called what HBO does every day. Also In Love & Human Remains, which is really shocking, gritty, edgy & haunts my memory when I saw it in the 90s, but was also a real off-kilter, what is going on story filled with interesting characters.