This turned out to be more of a rant than a review, but I watched Mrs Doubtfire recently for the first time in literal years and I have to say that Mrs Doubtfire is the most white male middle class heap of crap I’ve ever seen pushed onto kids.
This guy quits a job just because he doesn’t agree with what they’re asking him to do and it’s not like on a moral or ethical basis he just doesn’t want to do it because of ‘artistic integrity’, just being able to do that is a wild display of his privilege. How many people do you know that can just quit their job today and be okay with it? He then goes against the rules his wife set for their children, acts recklessly and then has the audacity to call her boring for having a job and not wanting her house destroyed. After this he begins to subvert her in front of their children, he even acts violently in front of their children, yelling at them when their mother is an hour early to pick them up. He then harasses her over the phone for seemingly days, pretending to be someone else in order to illegally gain access to his children and his ex wife’s house. Don’t you think that that’s abusive behaviour? And don’t get me started on the crap he pulls when she starts seeing another man or the fact that the entire thing is wildly transmisogynistic as well as regular misogynistic.
“A flawed husband is better than none at all.” – acutal quote from the movie. Fuck that!
The Captive Returns 