A wickedly funny look at men's alleged greatest asset. Also his ugliest, if one could judge according to this documentary that Jo Menell shot back in 1991 (according to my data). The timeless truth makes this short film an instance cult classic. Basically, you'll be treated to the fifteen minutes of rapidly succeeding stills of dozens and dozens of penises while women gleefully take us to pieces, blowing the last shreds of our manly self-respect. Should we hate the she-filmmaker? Good question, but I'd say no. Even if it comes from the feminist point of view it's quite gentle and amusing. In a sense it decriminalizes our tool and proves that all men are created (well, more or less) equal below the belt! Now, if one could only make the same film on the topic of female genitalia. I mean in a gentle way, without sexist bashing. Ah, well.
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One-Eyed Wonders!
darren shan16 July 2000
Amusing short film, in which pictures of male private parts are flashed on-screen, one after the other, accompanied by voice-overs of women discussing the relevance of the "wrinkly worms", their first glimpse of one, what they think of them, etc. Not, as you might imagine, the most serious-minded film in the world, and all the better for taking itself humourously.
Ages well!
saynitso1 June 2012
I love this flick! Just watched it again with my lover, who is much younger than I, and his jaw was on the floor all the way through. Like myself when I first saw this jewel, he'd never seen such variety of shapes, sizes, caps, no caps, jewelry enhanced, and curved dancing dicks as this great short film amusingly shows us in a fast moving, black and white manifesto on fearless exposure. Pithy humor in the women's voices, who are also baring their sexuality by commenting on men's genitals, weaves "Dick" together like a lively patterned Navajo rug. I've never shown my copy to a person that didn't bring it up numerous times, days, weeks, months later. It says much more than it says. Dick forces one's constraints to open like a nova blasts open a star, and it still twinkles brightly all these years later, as radical today as it was in '89. Perfect! Way to go Jo Menell!
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