No Men Beyond This Point Analysis
No Men Beyond This Point is the second film by Mark Sawers, a director from Canada who first presented himself, after only working with short films and on television, with Camera Shy released in 2012. It is a clever comedy about a man who finds out, that everything he does in life is suddendly being filmed. The director didn't stray too far away from the genre as he picked a mockumentary for his second big film.
No Men Beyond This Point takes us through a witty, slightly changed retelling of history, from the 1950s to modern day. It's starts with presenting the phenomenon in the '50s when there have been a growing number of virgin births. Firstly, this was denied by all governments, women being labeled as liars, but it has grown at such a …show more content…
Even though we are put in an alternate world in an almost sci-fi, comedy film, the documentary structure never fails to disappoint. It is so incredibly convincing, it almost makes it hard to believe those things were not happening. All of the actors' performances are amazing, not breaking their roles once and extremely contributing to the creation of this plausible new world. No Men Beyond This Point is also a film that touches various, popular social themes such as sex, gender roles, sexism, gay marriage, and presents them mostly in a very comfortable for everyone and clever way. Nonetheless, it is exactly when No Men Beyond This Point starts exploring sex that the film begins to disappoint a little bit. Especially making a rather dull attempt with the idea of how women would handle being in power. Hinting, once women get in charge and rule, essentially they would try to speed up men's extinction. Sawers also portrays their law as a conservative, sex-shaming authority, where women are not allowed to speak about their feelings or attraction to whomever. He finds shelter in a stereotype, that all women are asexual and completely constricting towards their sexuality, which could many find
No Men Beyond This Point takes us through a witty, slightly changed retelling of history, from the 1950s to modern day. It's starts with presenting the phenomenon in the '50s when there have been a growing number of virgin births. Firstly, this was denied by all governments, women being labeled as liars, but it has grown at such a …show more content…
Even though we are put in an alternate world in an almost sci-fi, comedy film, the documentary structure never fails to disappoint. It is so incredibly convincing, it almost makes it hard to believe those things were not happening. All of the actors' performances are amazing, not breaking their roles once and extremely contributing to the creation of this plausible new world. No Men Beyond This Point is also a film that touches various, popular social themes such as sex, gender roles, sexism, gay marriage, and presents them mostly in a very comfortable for everyone and clever way. Nonetheless, it is exactly when No Men Beyond This Point starts exploring sex that the film begins to disappoint a little bit. Especially making a rather dull attempt with the idea of how women would handle being in power. Hinting, once women get in charge and rule, essentially they would try to speed up men's extinction. Sawers also portrays their law as a conservative, sex-shaming authority, where women are not allowed to speak about their feelings or attraction to whomever. He finds shelter in a stereotype, that all women are asexual and completely constricting towards their sexuality, which could many find