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Title: pro-woman, actually
Review: The reviewer called "da dolphin boy" wanted to like the film but could not, because of the captain's smugly superior attitude to women. I saw the film and liked it, largely because of the ending. (NOTE: I prefer what I take to be the American version (with "dumplings" rather than "risssoles"), for a few modifications in portraying the captain's attitude, but I would defend either one.) (Warning: SPOILERS ahead.) The captain treats each woman as one aspect of the complete, perfect companion. But eventually, both women rebel, refuse to be regarded as less than complete human beings, and dump him. Thus his chauvinism receives its just punishment. But to have shown him utterly destroyed would have left the audience sympathetic, and would have weakened the moral rather then strengthening it. Instead, he makes amends of sorts to both women, and is punished less severely than he could have been, which is an appropriate twist for a comedy. And it is a comedy, and a hilarious one.
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