XIV — Much Better — Toxic Masculinity — I Melt With You

– Toxic Masculinity — Privilege — I Melt With You

Friends Ron, Jonathan, Richard and Tim, have known each other since college. They reunite in Big Sur to celebrate Tim’s 44th birthday. Each of them enjoy some degree of professional success but are unfulfilled with their lives. Ron is a stockbroker, but is currently facing indictment from the SEC for embezzlement. Jonathan runs a medical practice, but all of his patients are wealthy drug addicts, he and his wife are divorced, and their young son identifies more with the stepfather. Richard is a published author, but has only written one book and now teaches high school English. Tim, openly bisexual, was in a happy relationship with a man, until accidentally causing a fatal car crash five years ago that took the lives of his boyfriend and his sister.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Melt_with_You_(film)

I Melt with You — a 2011 film starring: Thomas Jane, Jeremy Piven, Rob Lowe, and Christian McKay — brilliantly portrays white male privilege and toxic masculinity.

Drugs, drugs and more drugs and plenty of alcohol — unite the men — along with memories of their youthful indiscretions. Sexism and elitism — shines among these self-centered men. They speak of how they’ve made poor choices, yet strangely it is so unfair that they face accountability for some of their actions.

One man has fleeced many clients of their money, but he is so, so proud that he’s never been…