It was 2008 when the movie "Fireproof" came out, a very popular pro-Christian film wherein a firefighter s having marital problems. His wife is on the edge of divorce with him, and is contemplating cheating with a doctor at the hospital where she works.
Leave out the Christianity for a moment and look at what is going on in the marriage from a redpill lens:
1) Why was he looking at porn if he was married? Why didn't he just have sex with his wife? She had an issue with him looking at porn, but didn't suggest they have sex more.
2) Why is he expected to forego getting a boat in favor of a medical bed. This was a plot point driven by her desires, and no mention was made of applications to medicare, which usually does pay for such things.
3) In the end, she doesn't sleep with the doctor, but she also never reveals any of her interactions with him to her husband, and she chooses not to because her husband changed, implying that she was swayed by his character changing. This is completely unrealistic.
4) Buying her flowers and keeping his temper in check are good for their own sake, and a minor point of the movie, but they'd not have any effect on her behavior long-term.
The movie isn't a bad film or overly cheesy as such, but it is unrealistic of female nature, and it lays out the archetype every Tradcon wants: the gynocentric servant.
I would recommend watching it for free somewhere to see the points I made so you are innoculated against such propaganda.
@DoubleD
It's bad propaganda. It's also unrealistic about male nature.
The entire message of the movie is that men have to put a facade, completely transform themselves into someone else who sacrifices all his desires for nothing in order to get no reward: to keep his cheating wife from divorce raping him.
Men who have no personality, no ambition, no competence and no guts are nothing more than blue pill weaklings and everyone hates them.
@Zeb When I say it wasn't a bad movie, I mean production and cinematography unrelated to the content.
I haven't seen the film, but what you describe @Zeb was the dominant social programming for men and boys at that time. It was the Gen-X life script constantly rammed down our throats with films just like that.
Thank God the internet has cut the legs out from all that bullshit, but it's come at a high cost.
Just from personal observation I'd say it's destroyed roughly 60% of fathers and families from my generation, and I'm including men of ambition, competence and guts.
Through the course of the movie the male protagonist changes his character: he stops looking at porn, controls his temper more, buys her flowers, becomes a believing Christian, and gives up his dream of owning a boat instead spending the money on his wife's mother's medical bed. After doing all this and many pro-Christian scenes, his wife cries and runs to the bedroom to collect her engagement ring which she had put in the sock drawer before running to kiss him at the fire station.