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You're talking as a man
who is both convinced that you have never been
a perpetrator of sexual violence or that you know any
perpetrators of sexual violence, which is misogyny at its worst, this insidious belief
that bad men hide in the shadows and comprise less than 1%
of the population, that you'll never
really meet them, and so you need a film
like "showgirls" to show you what evil
can actually look like
who is both convinced that you have never been
a perpetrator of sexual violence or that you know any
perpetrators of sexual violence, which is misogyny at its worst, this insidious belief
that bad men hide in the shadows and comprise less than 1%
of the population, that you'll never
really meet them, and so you need a film
like "showgirls" to show you what evil
can actually look like
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You're talking as a man
who is both convinced
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that you have never been
a perpetrator of sexual violence
00:00:06.013 --> 00:00:08.873
or that you know any
perpetrators of sexual violence,
00:00:08.926 --> 00:00:11.884
which is misogyny at its worst,
00:00:11.929 --> 00:00:15.012
this insidious belief
that bad men hide in the shadows
00:00:15.057 --> 00:00:17.388
and comprise less than 1%
of the population,
00:00:17.433 --> 00:00:18.787
that you'll never
really meet them,
00:00:18.811 --> 00:00:20.801
and so you need a film
like "showgirls"
00:00:20.853 --> 00:00:24.687
to show you what evil
can actually look like.
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Movie Summary
Released in 1995, Paul Verhoeven's Showgirls was met by critics and audiences with near universal derision. You Don't Nomi traces the film's redemptive journey from notorious flop to cult classic, and maybe even masterpiece.
