A fun fantasy film about a world without men, "Women's World" is the first feature-length movie from the specialty porn outfit Anatomik Media, made up of Rhiannon Anatomik and Dan Anatomik, who have created tons of content latterly for Adult Time platform's labels like Girlsway, Web Young and Devil's Film. It runs 4-1/2 hours long, released in four parts by Adult Time.
I have long hoped for a movie adaptation of one of my favorite "mainstream" sci-fi novels: Philip Wylie's 1951 book "The Disappearance", and "Women's World" provides a much simpler but effective fantasy alternative. Wylie's still-in-print opus concerns a sudden split of Earth into two separate universes: all the planet's women in one and all the men in the other. The subsequent pair of dystopias begin with the expected consequences: peace in a world run by women and all-out violent disaster in the all-male one, but subsequent developments follow a now-dated approach: the peaceful women cannot maintain technology so modern aspects of civilization fall apart leading to famine, for example, which would need an extreme rewrite in any 21st Century adaptation recognizing women's prowess in areas of science and technology.
"Women's World" takes a mainly light-hearted approach, with the issue of procreation (and maintenance of the species) completely disregarded. Instead the focus is on human relations in a world where suddenly all the men have not disappeared but are now women. Several hints in Part One especially pose this odd situation as the result of many protagonists' making idle wishes, that actually come true but with unexpected results.
MANY SPOILERS: The screenplay credited to all three major staff writers for Gamma Films (Midnight, Fistopher Nolan and Lapis Afterglow) features several useful plot ploys: focus is largely on the women who were women before the Great Change, and how they adapt to the strange new world that many hoped for (e.g., "I wish women ruled the world"). The women who were formerly men fall into several categories: some are oblivious to their former existence, like Nicki played by Haley Reed, who has changed from Serene Siren's stepson to her stepdaughter (making for the usual faux incest as he-to-she seduces stepmommy). Some are aware of their sudden transition, like Casey Calvert as Leslie, who briefly sees her old driver's license picture change, and later remembers her past completely. But most are bewildered, with just brief flashes in black & white of what used to be.
A very effective scene in Part Four takes place in the kitchen of Victoria Voxxx and Alex Coal. Voxxx as well-named Karen was prejudiced against lesbians before the change, and has to get used to Coal as Morgan who was her husband, a wedding planner/florist we briefly saw as male (face not shown, played by a crew member) working on star Kenna James' upcoming wedding in the movie's Part One introduction. Both have only momentary flashes of their past, but soon forget and carry on as a happily married lesbian couple as if nothing had happened.
An interesting scene features Candice Dare and Christy Love, who had a "secret" lesbian affair in Part One, hiding their relationship from all their friends, but in Part Four they remember their past, and decide to separate and become "just friends", rather than lovers, now that the naughty thrill is gone in a world where lesbianism is no longer frowned upon but rather universally honored. The movie works best when this ambivalence between comedy/satire and an underlying emotional impact occurs.
The 16 principal roles make for a total of eight hot XXX lesbian sex couplings, including Kenna having sex with her groom-turned woman Mocha Menage, a Black actress who has flown under the radar for well over a decade in the world of gonzo before getting this major acting assignment; Destiny Cruz and Spencer Bradley are lesbians whose family opposed their relationship, but now can live openly -they remember the world before and celebrate the Change; Calvert as Leslie who is thrilled to be married (as lesbians) to her wife Marica Hase, latter unaware that she previously had a husband "Leslie"; Alexis Tae and Jewelz Blu as hair stylists working in a salon who hook up after Jewelz turns from straight to lesbian via the change; and an amusing team of Alison Rey, who is escaping from her lesbian tendencies, shown in flashback having sex in the TV studio with newscaster Ana Foxxx.
Foxxx gives news reports that provide a wider context to what's happening, while Rey provides a happy/ironic ending when she wakes up in her tent at a camp she's attending to get away from women, only to find it's filled with all-women campers, a chance for split-second cameos by actresses including Laney Grey and Ember Snow.
Of course the fantasy is viewed from a lesbian point-of-view, but nonetheless, to quote the motto of rival (and pioneering) lesbian-specialty studio Girlfriends Films, the movie provides food for thought "for fine folks with good hearts and curious minds", a recognition that however it's marketed, lesbian porn remains most popular with a male audience.
I have long hoped for a movie adaptation of one of my favorite "mainstream" sci-fi novels: Philip Wylie's 1951 book "The Disappearance", and "Women's World" provides a much simpler but effective fantasy alternative. Wylie's still-in-print opus concerns a sudden split of Earth into two separate universes: all the planet's women in one and all the men in the other. The subsequent pair of dystopias begin with the expected consequences: peace in a world run by women and all-out violent disaster in the all-male one, but subsequent developments follow a now-dated approach: the peaceful women cannot maintain technology so modern aspects of civilization fall apart leading to famine, for example, which would need an extreme rewrite in any 21st Century adaptation recognizing women's prowess in areas of science and technology.
"Women's World" takes a mainly light-hearted approach, with the issue of procreation (and maintenance of the species) completely disregarded. Instead the focus is on human relations in a world where suddenly all the men have not disappeared but are now women. Several hints in Part One especially pose this odd situation as the result of many protagonists' making idle wishes, that actually come true but with unexpected results.
MANY SPOILERS: The screenplay credited to all three major staff writers for Gamma Films (Midnight, Fistopher Nolan and Lapis Afterglow) features several useful plot ploys: focus is largely on the women who were women before the Great Change, and how they adapt to the strange new world that many hoped for (e.g., "I wish women ruled the world"). The women who were formerly men fall into several categories: some are oblivious to their former existence, like Nicki played by Haley Reed, who has changed from Serene Siren's stepson to her stepdaughter (making for the usual faux incest as he-to-she seduces stepmommy). Some are aware of their sudden transition, like Casey Calvert as Leslie, who briefly sees her old driver's license picture change, and later remembers her past completely. But most are bewildered, with just brief flashes in black & white of what used to be.
A very effective scene in Part Four takes place in the kitchen of Victoria Voxxx and Alex Coal. Voxxx as well-named Karen was prejudiced against lesbians before the change, and has to get used to Coal as Morgan who was her husband, a wedding planner/florist we briefly saw as male (face not shown, played by a crew member) working on star Kenna James' upcoming wedding in the movie's Part One introduction. Both have only momentary flashes of their past, but soon forget and carry on as a happily married lesbian couple as if nothing had happened.
An interesting scene features Candice Dare and Christy Love, who had a "secret" lesbian affair in Part One, hiding their relationship from all their friends, but in Part Four they remember their past, and decide to separate and become "just friends", rather than lovers, now that the naughty thrill is gone in a world where lesbianism is no longer frowned upon but rather universally honored. The movie works best when this ambivalence between comedy/satire and an underlying emotional impact occurs.
The 16 principal roles make for a total of eight hot XXX lesbian sex couplings, including Kenna having sex with her groom-turned woman Mocha Menage, a Black actress who has flown under the radar for well over a decade in the world of gonzo before getting this major acting assignment; Destiny Cruz and Spencer Bradley are lesbians whose family opposed their relationship, but now can live openly -they remember the world before and celebrate the Change; Calvert as Leslie who is thrilled to be married (as lesbians) to her wife Marica Hase, latter unaware that she previously had a husband "Leslie"; Alexis Tae and Jewelz Blu as hair stylists working in a salon who hook up after Jewelz turns from straight to lesbian via the change; and an amusing team of Alison Rey, who is escaping from her lesbian tendencies, shown in flashback having sex in the TV studio with newscaster Ana Foxxx.
Foxxx gives news reports that provide a wider context to what's happening, while Rey provides a happy/ironic ending when she wakes up in her tent at a camp she's attending to get away from women, only to find it's filled with all-women campers, a chance for split-second cameos by actresses including Laney Grey and Ember Snow.
Of course the fantasy is viewed from a lesbian point-of-view, but nonetheless, to quote the motto of rival (and pioneering) lesbian-specialty studio Girlfriends Films, the movie provides food for thought "for fine folks with good hearts and curious minds", a recognition that however it's marketed, lesbian porn remains most popular with a male audience.