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I don’t know if this movie is good, but I can defend 1/3 of it. Chris is a timid, sensitive guy who’s well aware that other guys expect him to be more macho. He cares a lot about what other people think of him, so there’s a lot of push-pull between “I need to act tough and make them respect me” versus “This just isn’t me.” A lot of little moments seem engineered to make men who aren’t manly think “Yeah, this is exactly how I felt in that situation.”

There are also a lot of scenes that pull out little moments of how Lisa and Abel feel, particularly in regards to sexism and racism. I haven’t experienced the same bigotry they have, so I can’t evaluate whether these scenes are good or bad. If they’re as good as the Chris scenes, then I can say that this is a good movie.