Cancel everything and give everyone (but white males) a blue ribbon. n please.
Underplayed
2020
Action / Documentary
Underplayed
2020
Action / Documentary
Plot summary
Filmed over the summer festival season, Underplayed presents a portrait of the current status of the gender, ethnic, and sexuality equality issues in dance music. Seen through the lens of the female pioneers, next-generation artists and industry leaders who are championing the change, and inspiring a more diverse pool of role models for future generations.
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awe poor babies..
A documentary that completely wasted its potential and fails to deliver the message
I listen to EDM since 2011, and I can confirm that in this industry there is a huge gender inequality. Very few female DJs/Producers become famous.
For the entire documentary everyone repeats the same concept: female in the electronic music industry are not represented enough and they are struggling to promote themselves as artists, in a world dominated by male characters. It is very repetitive. Sure, the director interviewed event promoters and producers that explained what they are trying to do in order to solve this issue, but that's it. There is nothing more. At the very beginning they show some female music pioneers, such as Delia Derbyshire, but they never explained which was their contributions to the music industry, creating a huge disservice towards the viewer. I had to go to Wikipedia to search this on my own.
REZZ was interviewed just to attract people on watching the documentary, which is not wrong, if this help to sell the product, but do not waste too much time on her. Don't get me wrong, I like her music, but she did not really struggled to get where she is now. I mean, if you can afford to spend almost two years in your parent's basement by doing nothing but composing, and with no prior music knowledge, I would say that you went down to an easier path, compared to your colleagues. Tokimonsta, instead that studied piano since she was a child and started to mix and produce since she was in college, has very little screen time. Maybe the only DJ that has the right space is Tygapaw, but I wondered that this is because of what she has done for the music community, or because she is part of the LGBT movement, fulfilling the political correctness element. I give the benefit of the doubt.
Overall a huge waste, a documentary that potentially could have done the difference, raising awareness about the EDM industry, but failed completely to deliver the message.
Does this issue and the artists such justice
I found this film exciting and hopeful. Stacey beautifully lays out the why of how we got here and the horrifying statistics to match, but doesn't dwell on it, and in my opinion that does the most justice to the cause. Instead she makes you fall in love with these characters, the artists. You get to intimately see how hard they work, how much they sacrifice and how lonely it can be when you're a minority in an industry that's also very silo'ed in its work.
I have read every critic and user who decided to criticize the film in some way (from what I saw they were also all male) and it only made me like the film more, and feel confident in my support of it. The criticisms reveal that if you aren't able to get yourself to a place where you can understand the trials and the strenuous journey of those who are an overlooked, dismissed minority than you likely are in such a place of privilege that it wouldn't even be an experience you can identify or relate to.