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Nov 12, 2019
3 minutes
Illustration by Laurène Boglio
#12: The Signet Ring
n Greek filmmaker Athina Rachel Tsangari’s 2015 movie , six well-off men decide to play a game on a luxury yacht, brutally comparing each other’s taste, clothing, wealth and sexual prowess, all for empty larks. The prize for this (at one point, literal) dick-measuring contest is a gold signet ring, which one of the men will receive for his triumph as an all-around alpha male. It may be that Tsangari, a female director drolly inspecting the dynamics between groups
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