Sacha Baron Cohen in the nightmare of the patriarchy

This little comedy is late about a chauvinist who, after an accident, wakes up in an alternative reality where women are in power and men receive the discriminatory treatment they have had to endure all their lives. Perhaps 25 years ago this film would have made more sense than now... or perhaps not: the similarities between this work by Thea Sharrock and Family man and "What Women Want", both films from the year 2000 and both also moral fables with a very similar plot, are many. They all use a redemption arc for the main protagonist that goes from censurable behavior to ethical awakening after a fantastic event.

With that film starring Mel Gibson, moreover, "

Ladies First" shares more things, and not precisely good ones: from a supposedly empathetic and instructive angle regarding the unjust treatment of women in society, they end up shooting themselves in the foot because their jokes are a perpetuation of stereotypes. They don't work even by inverting them, because reverse satires often remain just as an exception, as a "oh, how funny", as a "can you imagine?" However, perhaps Netflix viewers, who are many and not one for subtleties, need a broad-strokes comedy like this (in fact, it's a remake of a 2018 French title on the platform, I Am Not Easy) to fall off the horse like Sacha Baron Cohen's character himself.