I saw Cashback at the 2005 Seattle International Film Festival, in a showing with four other shorts. It was easily the worst of the bunch. The treatment of women in this film is deplorable. There is a long sequence in which the main character "stops time" in a grocery store, then undresses all of the women and sketches them. Or, I should say, sketches their breasts, asses, and hairless groins: their faces, and anything about them other than their bodies between their knees and their shoulders is apparently irrelevant. To make this worse, the sketcher blathers about his love of the "beauty of the female form", when it would be more honest for him to say that he's obsessed with tits and shaved pussies. I can't think of a more repulsive objectification of women on film (though, to be fair, I tend to avoid films that might offer competition in this area).
Review of Cashback
