Assholes: A Theory (2019)

• Year: 2019
• Released: 24 Mar 2019
• Country: N/A
• Adwords: 4 nominations
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10011682/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/assholes_a_theory
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• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: English, Italian
• MPA Rating: N/A
• Genre: Documentary
• Runtime: 81 min
• Writer: Aaron James, John Walker, Robert Sandler
• Director: John Walker
• Cast: John Cleese, Suji Gelerman, Robert I. Sutton
• Keywords: social commentary, morality, antisocial behavior,

	6.4/10
	100% – Critics

Assholes: A Theory Storyline

After stumbling upon Philosophy professor Aaron James’s titular book, filmmaker John Walker presents theories centered on the type general society classifies as the “asshole”. In attempting to define the term, James himself comes up with someone who “allows himself special advantages in cooperative life out of an entrenched sense of entitlement that immunizes him against the complaints from other people”. The issues discussed in the film include: the association between narcissism and assholism; the difference between an asshole and a prick or a dick; the prevalence of assholism in men versus women; the asshole culture in Los Angeles and in Canada, the latter known as land of overly polite and unassuming people (with a few individuals, the so-called national sport, and one public sector organization being dissected in the discussion in being contrary to the perception that Canada has a difficult time producing assholes); if being an asshole is a born or learned trait; certain groupings in which asshole behavior seems to be inherent; the effect of electing assholes as leaders of countries, they who usually espouse some sort of populism; the role of the online world, especially tech giants and trolls, in the evolution of assholism; and organizations, especially ones where assholes seem to be dominating figures, taking measures to eliminate assholism in seeing it as a structural problem negatively impacting the organization, including the bottom line. Examples from popular culture are used to highlight these concepts.

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It takes one to know one…

It’s low hanging fruit. It’s good to address it but those, that represent the title, most often are oblivious. As a defense mechanism; we all must, at times, imitate the A**hole.

I give it a ten, because it’s not a 1…My only two ratings…

Spoiler EVERYONE IS AN A**HOLE!

Was okay, then it went political.

I thought this was an interesting “documentary” up to a point. They distinguish between “assholes” and “dicks,” chief difference being that assholes don’t realize they’re assholes. Prim and property behavioral professionals toss the words about as though they’re clinical.

But then they just couldn’t help themselves and went political, pointing out people of the opposite political persuasion as being assholes.

Sorry, your impartiality and credibility went out the window.

Was this a mockumentary?

The movie is a talking-head documentary with people talking about a-holes. That’s as deep as it goes. But worse, everyone was congratulating themselves on not being an a-hole and we have to get together and fight all the a-holes out there. Guess what, we can all be a-holes. Filmmaker read a book and then filmed people talking about a-holes they encountered. I hope the book was more in-depth than this movie. Spoiler alert, he spends 20 min showing that Canadians can be a-holes too. We honesty thought this was a mockumentary.