IN THE COMPANY OF MEN

Name: IN THE COMPANY OF MEN
Item: IN THE COMPANY OF MEN
Author: Review

"Men Behaving Badly"

Family Content: -4 Intentional blasphemy, evil, gross immorality, and/or worldview problems. (To be avoided)

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What You Need To Know:

The movie IN THE COMPANY OF MEN is a CARNAL KNOWLEDGE of the 1990s. Two men, Chad and Howard, are two mid-thirty-something corporate types who claim that they are tired of being rejected by women in the tense sexual atmosphere of the 1990’s. Together, they emotionally abuse Christine (Stacy Edwards), a deaf woman, as a way of getting revenge against women who have hurt them. Chad browbeats and humiliates the deaf woman, Christine, and a young black intern whom he persuades to pull down his pants. Later, Howard is physically sickened by the way he has allowed Chad to persuade him to behave.

This is an anti-Christian, and morally bankrupt movie. The New York Times calls it “an emotional snuff film”…. Chad and Howard believe that no matter how badly they are treated by women during the rest of their lives, they will have this memory of the dominance of the deaf woman to comfort them. While this film is supposed to raise men’s consciousness, Chad’s evil behavior negates any positive, “consciousness-raising” aspects which seeing this film might have for men. The revenge theme, and the other many objectionable elements make it inappropriate for moral Americans of any gender

Content:

(Pa, AC, LLL,V,NN,A,D,M) Pagan, anti-Christian worldview of two men deliberately inflicting emotional hurt on a deaf woman; 58 obscenities; woman slaps man, man & woman struggle in car, man exposes himself, male upper body nudity, & female clad in revealing clothes; 2 scenes of implied fornication; alcohol use; drug use; and, revenge

More Detail:

IN THE COMPANY OF MAN starts as Chad (Aaron Eckhart) and Howard (Matt Molloy), two corporate computer consultants, go East for a six week project and decide that deliberately hurting Christine (Stacy Edwards), a deaf woman, will make them feel dominant for the rest of their lives. Chad, a physically attractive cad, hates everybody and will hurt anybody to move ahead in the corporate structure. Because he is physically attractive, he gets away with selfish, reprehensible behavior.

Chad browbeats and humiliates the deaf woman, Christine, and a young black intern whom he persuades to pull down his pants. Chad’s evil behavior negates any positive, “consciousness-raising” aspects which this film might have for men. The film also makes the point that, since the corporate world is a jungle, only those tough enough to hurt others will win.

This is an anti-Christian, and morally bankrupt premise. One leaves the theatre believing that physically attractive people always get their way, no matter how depraved, or perverse their behavior.

Possibly because of its surprisingly high-quality production values for a $25,000 film, the Sundance Film Festival awarded IN THE COMPANY OF MEN its Filmmaker’s Trophy as best film for 1997. Sundance also awarded Aaron Eckhart the best actor award, possibly for the maniacal zeal with which he depicted the revenge-obsessed Chad. Moral Americans might wonder how the prestigious Sundance Film Festival can overlook such obvious moral flaws in film storytelling as they reward cinematographic excellence.

In spite of the Sundance recommendation, moral Americans will avoid this demented movie.