No Men Beyond This Point Page #4

Synopsis: In a world where women have become asexual and are no longer giving birth to males, a quiet, unassuming housekeeper named Andrew Myers finds himself at the center of a battle to keep men from going extinct.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Director(s): Mark Sawers
Production: Sony Pictures Entertainment
  6 wins & 8 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.3
Rotten Tomatoes:
43%
Year:
2015
80 min
80 Views


qualified female.

It's simply

a weeding out process.

And there just happens

to be a lot of weeds.

My grandfather, he warned

that this would happen.

He said we never should

have given women the vote.

He said, "You give them an inch,

and they'll take your soul."

You know what?

He was right.

Generally speaking,

men did not

react well to

female-led governments.

More and more of

them began to opt out

and move to rural encampments in what

we now refer to as "the Exodus."

We are not welcome here,

so why stay?

You know?

We'll see how they

get along without us,

because I don't think

it's going to be too long

before they realize the mistake they

made and then beg us to come back.

Hey, jackass!

You forgot your coat.

Kind of an important

item to leave behind

when you're gonna

live in the woods.

I was living

with these three women,

and they were all

beautiful and free loving.

Then they started treating me

like a sex object

and their errand boy.

By the mid-1970s,

it was clear

that women were doing just

fine without men in charge.

This caused a lot of the men who had

left to rethink their positions.

Some returned and took on

more subservient roles.

But a core group

dug in their heels

and refused to accept

the new world order.

It's simple, okay?

Power, respect.

That's what's been

taken away from us,

and that's what we

intend to get back.

It's not called "womankind."

It's called "mankind."

And there's a reason for that,

because for

the last 200,000 years,

men have been keeping

civilization afloat.

We've been steering the ship.

We built the ship.

And now they want

to chuck us overboard

because their eggs

have gone haywire?

Not bloody likely.

-What do we want?

-Respect!

-When do we want it?

-Now!

-What do we want?

-Respect!

-When do we want it?

-Now!

The protests tied up traffic

throughout the city,

which is believed to be what

ultimately sparked the violence.

Women just started

getting out of their cars

and coming at us with this...

This look in their eyes.

Get out of the street!

I was trying to get to work, but

the traffic was stopped dead.

And then I saw the men blocking

the road and chanting.

And I snapped.

Protest marches took place

all over the world that day.

At first, it was thought that the violence

was connected to parthenogenesis.

That nature was compensating

for the loss of men

by making women

more aggressive.

But in fact,

it was PMS.

By 1975,

women represented

over three-quarters

of the world's population.

This triggered what's known as

"menstrual ovulatory synchrony,"

which is a phenomenon

where the menstrual cycles of

women become synchronized.

So essentially, the world became

like one big sorority house.

This is just

the tip of the iceberg.

First their bodies

get in sync.

Pretty soon,

it'll be their minds.

Telepathic communication.

How do you contend with that?

You can't.

You can't compete

with the hive mind.

The protest marches

and the ensuing violence

turned out to be

a watershed event.

It was the catalyst

for creating a monthly,

three-day statutory holiday

we now know as "Menses."

But more importantly, the protests

happened right after unification.

So it was the first test

for the newly formed

World Governing Council.

And everyone was watching very closely

to see how they would respond.

First of all,

I want to make it clear

that the World Governing

Council, above all, listens.

We want men's groups everywhere

to know we have heard you.

We acknowledge your plight

and we're going to help you.

As part of our commitment

to ensuring the safety

and comfort of men everywhere,

the World Governing Council has

set aside vast areas of land

for the creation

of male sanctuaries.

These exclusive communities will

be located all over the world,

including the entire

continent of Australia.

Men who live in these

sanctuaries will be provided

all the services they require,

including medical attention,

nutritious meals,

clean clothes,

and of course, entertainment.

We believe that

the remaining men

should be kept as

comfortable as possible

as they live out their lives.

And that their

contribution to humanity

must be, and will be,

respected and honored.

But, at the same time, we must

respect and honor nature's actions.

Praise nature.

Do they think we're children?

Offering us food and a bunch

of silly conveniences.

It is a blatant attempt by this

female regime to pacify us.

We're not stupid.

They can ply us with

all the comforts in the world,

but it will not

change our resolve.

Because they may have taken away

our rightful place in society.

They will not take

away our dignity.

While there's no question

the MLO had a defiant spirit

and were very vocal

about their intentions,

they actually didn't do much

once the Governing Council

established the sanctuaries

and began providing services.

That's rubbish.

Living in the sanctuaries

has not made us weak.

What it has done is given us the

ability to plan our resurgence

as the dominant,

superior sex

without the hassle of having to prepare

meals or take care of ourselves.

Don't you see?

The joke is on them.

All this time,

the regime have believed

that they've been

weakening our resolve.

But what they've actually

been doing is allowing us

to focus on our

plan of attack.

And it won't be long

before we're ready to strike.

I don't think the issue

is whether or not

the MLO is

an effective organization.

It's the fact that their central

goal can't be achieved.

Not when the government

firmly believes

that there's no solution

to the problem.

They don't even see

manlessness as a problem.

To them, it's simply

an evolutionary event,

an act of nature

that's beyond our control

and should

never be questioned,

because nature is sacred.

Notice the energy

rising up your body,

higher and higher.

Feel the power flowing up

through your fingertips.

Breathe it in.

It wasn't enough

that they took away our jobs.

They went and fired God, too.

Worshipping the sacred

cycles of her forces.

Replaced him with a sheila.

That's nature

flowing through you.

Praise nature.

But you can't

question her actions,

because everything she does

is a blessed gift.

Influenza was

an act of nature.

So was malaria and cancer.

But they're not

around anymore.

And not because

nature eradicated them,

but because the government spent trillions

of dollars developing vaccines.

I'm not suggesting that the

Governing Council has been

avoiding dealing with the

manlessness issue on purpose

as a way

to maintain power,

even though having men die off

would certainly achieve that goal.

But I do think it's

worth asking the question.

Why haven't more resources

been put towards it?

There's no doubt in my mind

that the government have been

deliberately

ignoring the problem.

They're using

nature as an excuse

to push their

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Mark Sawers

Mark Sawers is a Canadian film and television director. Best known for his feature films Camera Shy and No Men Beyond This Point, he is also a four-time Genie Award nominee for Best Live Action Short Drama for his films Stroke at the 13th Genie Awards, Hate Mail at the 14th Genie Awards, Shoes Off at the 19th Genie Awards and Lonesome Joe at the 24th Genie Awards. Shoes Off also won the Canal+ Award at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival.As a television director, his credits have included segments of The Kids in the Hall, and episodes of Alienated, Alice, I Think, About a Girl, The Assistants, Mr. Young and Anticlimax. From Vancouver, British Columbia, Sawers is a graduate of the University of British Columbia. more…

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