'Big Boys Don't Cry' Explores Masculinity in Cairo's Gyms

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorA new documentary follows bouncers and bodybuilders in Cairo to ask what masculinity is made of, Variety reports in its review of Big Boys Don't Cry.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorEl Gouna Film Festival in Egypt gave this one a slot in its feature documentary competition, and the director says it started as a study back in twenty sixteen.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorTen years, then. The film is seventy-six minutes long, and women are deliberately left out so the room stays all male.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThe director compares it to peering inside a locker room. I'd call that an access-forward, women-optional cinematic experience.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorWomen-optional.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorHank, it's a serious film. Some of these men have biceps as thick as a woman's waist, according to the film's own page.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThat's commitment to a craft.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe review says their routines include cupping therapy and veterinary hormones, and it calls those dangerous. That's the review's word, not mine.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorI'd have said horse.

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    Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThe director says participants could ask for anything to be removed, even during the final edit. That's the most generous cut in the history of film.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSeventy-six minutes, three funders, and the only thing anyone could lift out of it was a scene.