Reply #111: that is not quite what is happening if you watch closely

[pitohui]

watch the wall again

you will notice that scenes shot from the POV of the "rock star" show him indeed wallowing in my mommy did me wrong, my wifey did me wrong, my groupie did me wrong, having sick visions of the vagina dentata etcetera

but you are also given strong hints that it's his illness that makes him see things that way

for instance, he hears the groupie ask, very sarcastically, "do you want to take a bath" presumably just to get him nekkid and down to business and just use him

then we hear the same scene again, from a neutral POV, and it's clear that there is no sarcasm in the young girl's voice, just a wish to somehow please her difficult hero

or the wife -- he sees her as this humongous bitch -- her shadow is a giant amazonian monster much taller than he -- the actual wife is a small woman

there are little clues all the way thru that the POV character is absolutely stark raving bonkers and wrong to blame his issues on women, he perceives them as being all-powerful and yet there is no evidence in the movie that the women have this power he imagines, that's part of his illness

it's a classic "unreliable narrator"

yeah, his wife cheats on him, he cheats on her too, that isn't misogynist, that's just the way it is when he's a star surrounded by groupies and she's lonely because he has pushed her away because of his own illness

i don't see it misogynist at all, just sad