Free the Nipple

To be fair I turned this movie off almost at once. If you want to make a film about women's rights to be legally equal to men, and you title your film after a political movement to show breasts are not offensive, sexual or shameful you don't blur out the women's breasts. By doing so you are sending the exact opposite message. By blurring out the breasts this film is saying that they should stay covered because it might offend someone.

This film is a waste of time and money. It works in direct opposition to women's rights.

If you want to make a film like this you must have the courage to actually free the nipple. Otherwise, don't bother.

I was very excited to see that this movie was a documentary. How could I not be impressed with the social media around the likes of Rumer Willis ' campaign to go topless in New York City, Miley Cyrus ' sponsorship of the film through her partnership with Esco, and the endorsements of numerous other pro-feminist celebrities? This is not a film to my utter disappointment, but rather a dramatization of the start of the revolution. Hey, I felt exactly the way you've got to feel right now.The cause she supports in Esco's defense is worth the buzz surrounding this film. Females should be as free to go topless as men, without penalty, whose bare nipples can be displayed in all 50 states. Instagram and Facebook have completely unfair censorship policies against the naked female nipple, although similar women's sexual images and men's identical ones are all right. Unfortunately, in this disjointed, ridiculous little indie film, all this was not well expressed.Although the movement Free the Nipple is only two years old, the movie presents this story as an epic saga, a story about a group of women battling the patriarchy and eventually taking unfair laws and digital policies down. Nonetheless, their battle is still going on, and in this state, although they have brought awareness to the issue, it hasn't changed much. A young drama will make a TV movie better than the indie market. The characters are bland, there is real breast censorship in several scenes, and then none in other scenes, there is a lot of filler, and the ending is anticlimactic, because with characters like these, whose ending should take care to begin with.I emphasize that even if this movie had a bigger budget, better characters, and a less haphazard way to relay information, this movie would not work yet. It's not a movie, and it's a waste of everyone's time for that simple reason. These films fuel people who oppose or devalue the struggle for equality. Not to say this movie is disappointing, it's just needless and misses the point. Hopefully there will be a serious documentary film from the seedling of this one.

Having watched this film purely out of curiosity towards the movement it really has swayed me to believe in it. It is not just about giving women the opportunity to walk around the streets topless just as many men do freely in the summer months, in fact it's hardly about that at all. It's about societies approach to female nudity and how we are censored from birth, forced into a mindset that sees nudity as obscene and something that should be avoided at all cost. It is the basis by which women and men are seen as completely different and therefore treated completely different. Woman have nipples, men have nipples, yet just because women have a little more behind theirs they must cover them up? When you really think about it, it's so clearly wrong.

The film was an interesting look at the approach of activists and, although clearly made on a budget, it gives a small insight into the amount that some people sacrifice in order to get a few others to think about something for just a few seconds in the hopes of evolving the way our society works.

This low budget production is based on a true story. It was produced by, directed by, and written by Lina Esco. The story is about activism in New York City to establish the right of women to show their breasts in public. The courts already said that women have that right, but local police still harassed women who go topless.

By the end of the film, the cause is broadened to emphasize all censorship, including film censorship. This is how it should be, as the display of female anatomy is part of the larger issue of self-expression and the libertarian viewpoint that we all have the right to act however we wish as long as we are not hurting another. As the film rightfully points out, religions play a central role in the creation of taboos and the exercise of censorship.

But the best part of the film is Lina Esco, whose presence as the central character of this film has an energy that reminds me of Angelina Jolie or Katie Holmes.

I did find it confusing that the film sometimes pixelates the topless women. Obviously, this was done for artistic reasons, because the film does not shy from the display of nudity, per its purpose. But this is a minor confusion; it does not dampen the film's enthusiasm for its cause.

Anyone would think in certain parts of the world women aren't being, sold as sex slaves, beaten, raped, stoned, allowed any freedoms. DAILY. If women seriously cared about equal rights you would think they would put energy into preventing these things rather than exercising their right to bare nipples. It's sad to see women plights in modern countries incomparable to other countries where culture and religion are ruling negating human rights.

Oh well women keep up the good fight.

I guess your equal rights voice is watered down to nudity, when the real volume could be found elsewhere.

I wonder if a woman who has had acid thrown on her would trade places with any of these oppressed and tortured women in the film?