Vashirdfel Simply A Masterpiece

Frances Chung Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Matho The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.

Justina The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

dazzling37 I loved this documentary! I've always been taught to just 'ignore' men when they whistle or say something about me when I'm on the streets - my friends all do the same. It does make me angry though, that men can check me out and comment and talk to me, and I'm just supposed to avoid eye contact and pretend nothing's happened when something has happened and it does affect me.That's why I love this documentary, finally instead of just ignoring this issue - some women has turned the 'harassment' of men back onto them, by 'harassing' them about their harassment - by filming their actions with a video camera and then confronting them about it, on video.I also loved the way the director pointed out how invasive and inappropriate it was for a complete stranger to make a comment to another complete stranger like that. Women don't do anything like that to men, but many men seemed to think that it was totally okay to talk to a complete stranger like that. For many people, sexual harassment on the street/in public seems like a small thing, something that 'just happens' and you ignore - so I was glad that someone considered it offensive enough to make a documentary about it! The director's links between the concepts of stranger danger, rape, and being talked to (in a sexual way) by a stranger on the street was fantastic.

Trajanc This film starts off with an interesting idea, challenging men on the streets who harass women, but it soon devolves into a series of Jerry Springer-like confrontations. Not much is analysed or discovered about anyone's behaviour. The film maker does get some shots in at the men she challenges but like another reviewer noted, many of them seem mentally handicapped or drug or alcohol addicted. That's not an excuse for their behaviour but putting them on the other side of a dialogue is not likely to produce anything really worth while. This film is really a sort of power trip that may be long over due but in it's execution it is potentially embarassing to watch for both sexes. Not really a documentary and not a study, War Zone is at best a guilty pleasure. It produces the same sort of result that an Israeli might get from walking up to a Palestinian and shouting at him, and vice versa.

John Seal This film should be shown to any boy on the cusp of manhood. The point of the film isn't to denigrate men, it's to remind them of the imbalance of the power relationship between the sexes. While I agree that Hadleigh-West occasionally seems overly sensitive, I think the film serves as a reminder that the line between flirtation and harassment is an invisible one, and the line is going to move considerably from person to person. The film was most effective when it confronted men who seemed willing to think or debate reasonably about their actions, but entertainment value is provided by some out and out male chauvinist pigs and Bible thumpers. There's even a nice old Jewish grandpa who gets the funniest moment in the film. My only major complaint is that sometimes the filmmaker settles on subjects who are clearly mentally handicapped, addicted to drugs or alcohol, or both. Powerful, unsettling, and thought provoking filmmaking.

Plato-5-2 I viewed a showing of this film and was disgusted in the manner that this so-called documentary blatantly pursued a self serving agenda of vilifying simple flirtation. Ms. Hadleigh-West seems to feel that it is perfectly proper to prance around enticingly attired, and then aggressively harass any and all individuals who attempt a simple flirtationGranted that insulting remarks or physical harassment is indeed worthy justification for her counter harassment. However, Ms Hadleigh-West lumps simple eye flirtation and "body-scanning" in with the bad stuff and considers them harassment....puhleez!I wonder what this pseudo "documentary" film maker thinks of the natural forms of flirtation performed in all cultures of the real world. I think she should consider getting a real job. I rate this a minus 10.