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Man Made (2019)

Documentary | 55 minutes
1,93 36 votes

Genre: Documentary

Duration: 55 minuten

Country: Netherlands

Directed by: Sunny Bergman

Starst: Annelies Kleinhering, Romy Rowena Loe a Foe and Roan Joan Stijn Malepaard

IMDb score: 6,8 (17)

Releasedate: 8 April 2019

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Man Made plot

Real men are stoic, never cry and joke hard. In this documentary, Sunny Bergman investigates social ideas about masculinity. What is seen as typically male and in which stereotypes does this express itself? And do men suffer from these ideas? Bergman is looking for answers from students and Sunday football players, but also from people who are transforming to become a man.

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Donkerwoud

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There are three things I struggle with in "Man Made" (2019). First, the recurring format of an ego document in which Sunny Bergman starts from herself to address broader social issues. It remains a tenuous marriage between her introspective self-examination and the scientific findings, which she insufficiently substantiates or contextualizes. More attention is paid to how the household is divided in the Bergman household than to the theoretical basis she uses as a starting point. Second, I'm not a huge fan of this kind of "consensus feminism" that talks about male emancipation. Feminist activism can be counterintuitive and confrontational precisely because it doesn't take men's experiences as its starting point. Third, this male emancipation is primarily translated into therapeutic support groups (including Jens van Tricht and Glenn Helberg, but perhaps even Jordan Peterson's) where men can discuss their feelings and emotions in more depth. I believe that the overuse of therapy in our society—aside from these gender issues—carries a danger because openness and a drive for confession are the norm. Too little is said about the consequences of having to constantly reflect on ourselves in front of an audience and within the rules of powerful institutions like mental health care.

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mrklm

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Bergman holds up a mirror not only to society but also to herself in her attempt to discover how men view their own masculine identity and that of other men. She films her partner, her father, and her neighbor, and has them examine whether her brain is fundamentally different from a man's. And that's just one of the scientific experiments whose results she documents in this entertaining, captivating, and quite remarkable documentary, which not only makes clear that the still-prevailing stereotypical image of masculinity is based on a myth and that men struggle with self-acceptance in a world that, as scientist Ryan A. McKelley points out, continues to oppress men.

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Hannibal

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Hey, a Sunny Bergman documentary with an average rating of around 2*, with negative commentary from the usual suspects. That's definitely something for me. I missed it at the time, so I finally saw it on NPO Plus. Bergman always makes her documentaries very personal, and I actually like that. They're about things that concern her, and I don't think there's anything wrong with that. I read in the comments above that people felt uncomfortable with nail polish, that it was "imposed," while the entire documentary shows how stereotypical masculinity is imposed, starting from birth, causing men to commit suicide four times as often as women. And that certainly doesn't happen because they massaged hands as children or because their nails were painted. I know how much Sunny Bergman is hated on this site, and people find her annoying. On the other hand, in compensation, I really appreciate Bergman as someone who makes her documentaries with passion, and it shows, even though the quality might not be the highest there is. Four stars from me.

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