History Film / IAmNotAnEasyMan

* HeelRealization: Alexandra [[spoiler: decides to stop writing the book when she sees her publisher laughing about how clueless Damien is and how he will have his heart shattered in the future.]]

** Likewise, after Damien's confusion wears down, the movie evolves into a typical romantic comedy with misunderstanding plot, where the traditionally female part (Damien) is rather passive and dependent on the traditionally masculine part (Alexandra).
* ButchLesbian: Referenced when Alexandra makes fun of Damien for "dressing like a lumberjack" (jeans and long-sleeved squares shirt). She later asks him (between laughs) if he is [[MistakenForGay gay]].

** Damien is shamed for being "hairy like a monkey" and pressured to shave except for a "landing stripe" in the middle of his chest, otherwise he'll never get a date. A bar patron later tries to rape him because, eh, having a "landing stripe" is just asking for it.

* SpiritualSequel: To ''Oppressed Majority''. It has the same premise, director-writer, and two actors (Pierre Benezit and Céline Menville), but they play different characters and the plot is not the same.

* LighterAndSofter: Surprisingly, to its [[SpiritualSequel spiritual predecessor]], ''Oppressed Majority'', which followed a stay-at-home dad being [[RapeAsDrama gang-raped]] by female hoodlums and then having to deal with an unsympathetic female chauvinist cop and victim-blaming from his own wife. The short also featured topless female joggers and women pissing in an alley without a care in the world, both absent from the film, and its commentary on Islam was both longer and harsher.

* LongHairedPrettyBoy: Despite most men in the film having short hair, more or less, it seems that the alternate world fetishises long haired men to some degree. The strippers, prostitutes, and the singer at the "queer" bar all have long, flowing, straight hair.
* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]], as denying the "injury" part is the actual point of the scene. Damien tells Lolo that she is pissing herself. She looks down, shrugs, and says that she actually broke her water and is off to get the car keys to go to the hospital. When Lolo's concerned husband asks her if he should drive, she shrugs again and says that she is not sick.

* OldMaid: Damien is shamed by his parents for being alone with [[CrazyCatLady his cat]] at 40. Nobody cares that Alexandra lives alone with her chameleon, however.

* RealAfterAll: [[spoiler: At the end, alternate world Alexandra is transported to our world and meets Damien, who remembers his stay in LadyLand and has become a women's rights activist.]]

* StayInTheKitchen: While not stated outright, it is certainly expected that men take care of children and home, as shown when Christophe is in the kitchen while Lolo is drinking and watching (female) rugby on TV. After Lolo gives birth, Christophe is the one expected to get paternity leave and take care of the infant. Male coworkers (and female before the accident) are also expected to act as waiters for their coworkers of the same sex, even though they have the same job and (presumably) pay.

** Alexandra is proud of her abs and often walks topless around her home. This isn't surprising because bras are apparently nonexistent.

* YourNormalIsOurTaboo: Everything. From men keeping their body hair, to dating several women without committing to a long-time relationship, to our gender clothing conventions, etc.

** A different case is the casual reference to a "Magritte" painting, even though Réné Magritte would not have (presumably) inherited his surname from his father in this world. For once, the line is not referencing a double standard, so the movie wastes no time in tryng to come up with a different name for the equivalent of a Magritte painting in this world and explaining it.

* FreezeFrameBonus: Constant ones. The movie uses the background to point every day double standards that we may not be very conscious about, like women dating much younger men and strolling with their arms over their shoulders, men in different degrees of nudity regardless of weather (or covered head to toe, in traditional Muslims case), and street advertising using men as lure regardless of what they are actually selling.
* FunnyForeigner: The Russian immigrant worker that Damien hires to remove some graffiti from Alexandra's door. Her asscrack is showing and she laughs her ass off when he explains that the word is a synonym of "bitch".

** Damien is shamed for being "hairy like a monkey" and pressured to shave except for a "landing stripe" in the mid of his chest, otherwise he'll never get a date. A bar patron later tries to rape him because, eh, having a "landing stripe" is just asking for it.

** The prostitute that Alexandra hires also covers his breasts after getting off the shower, but the towell falls to his waist while he combs his hair.

** Damien takes his frustration on Alexandra's things when he discovers that [[spoiler:she is already married, despite her promise to marry him.]]

* YourCheatingHeart: As part of the double standard, many women engage on it and find it at least amusing, if not something to brag about. They also joke about the (unnamed, female) President being discovered to have an affair, an [[AllohistoricalAllusion obvious reference]] to François Hollande's affair with Julie Gayet.

** The incident that causes Damien to quit his job (where he has been demoted in practice and is not taken seriously as a publicist anymore) has his boss unzipping her pants while he is picking something under her desk, in a rather obvious 'invitation' to give her cunnilingus.

The plot follows Damien (Vincent Elbaz), a successful, 40-year old Parisian publicist, a [[AnythingThatMoves confirmed bachellor]] and [[ChickMagnet proud womanizer]], who after being knocked out in an accident, wakes up in a world very much like the one he left behind... [[GenderInvertedTrope except that traditional gender roles have been turned on their heads]], and Damien is now the victim of the same sexist prejudices he had unashamedly exposed himself his whole life. In this world, women dominate society, politics, and religion, they dress in comfortable two-piece suits and are expected to bring home the bacon. Meanwhile, men are pressured to watch their appearance and show (shaved) skin until they find a woman, or are prevented from having successful careers in order to become homemakers and childrearers.

** The ''Madame'' President of the French Republic has just been discovered in an affair and this is a source of amusement for the women, but not something to condem her for. This is a reference to François Hollande's relationship with actress Julie Gayet, which started as an affair while he was in a long-time relationship with journalist Valérie Trierweiler (relationship that ''also'' started as an affair while Hollande was in another relationship with politician Sególène Royal). At the time, Hollande's popularity was at an all-time low and it actually went ''up'' because of the affair.
* AnAesop: Sexism and double standards based on gender are bad. Some of the attitudes we find natural are just so interiorized that we don't realize they are sexist and unfair.

* ParentalAbandonment: [[spoiler: Alexandra is still married to another man and has a teenage daughter that lives with him. Only her publisher knows about them and he never visits.]]

* DecoyProtagonist: Damien seems the sole protagonist in the trailers and the early movie. However, Alexandra takes over later and displaces him from the main focus.

* SayingTooMuch: Alexandra believes that Damien is getting drunk because he learned that she was using him for inspiration to write her book, and tries to apologize for it. He's actually doing it [[spoiler:because he has learned that she is already married]], and he takes the reveal another betrayal.

* FreezeFrameBonus: Constant ones. The movie uses the background to point every day double standards that we may not be very conscious about, like women dating much younger men and strolling with their arms on their shoulders, men in different degrees of implied nudity regardless of weather (or covered head to toe for traditional Muslims), and street advertising using men as lure regardless of what they are actually selling.

* YourCheatingHeart
* YourNormalIsOurTaboo

** Alexandra is proud of her abs and often walks topless around her home. Which isn't surprising given that bras don't seem to exist.

** Damien takes his frustration on Alexandra's things when he discovers that she is already married, despite her promise to marry him.

* StayInTheKitchen: While not stated outright, it is certainly expected that men take care of children and home, as shown when Christophe is in the kitchen while Lolo is drinking and watching (female) rugby on TV. After Lolo gives birth, Christophe is the one expected to get paternity leave and take care of the infant.
* UnkemptBeauty
* WalkingShirtlessScene
* WomanScorned
* WritersBlock

* OhCrap: Damien has two. One when he sees the Muslims being refused service for wearing hijab, which is the final nail in his realization that he is indeed in a different world. The other, when his psyhiatrist jokingly remarks that he'll have him committed if he can't name the (female) President of France.

* SayingTooMuch: Alexandra believes that Damien is getting drunk because he learned that she was using for inspiration to write her book, and tries to apologize for it. He's actually doing it [[spoiler:because he has learned that she is already married]], and he takes the reveal another betrayal.

* StayInTheKitchen

* FunnyForeigner: The Russian immigrant worker that Damien hires to remove some graffiti from Alexandra's door. Her asscrack is showing and she laughs her ass off when he explains that the word is a synonym of of "bitch".

* PerspectiveFlip
* RapeAsDrama
* RealAfterAll
* RightForTheWrongReasons
* SayingTooMuch
* ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules
* SlutShaming
* SpiritualSequel

* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: It isn't evident right away if Damien has been really transported to a different world or is just having AdventuresInComaLand. [[spoiler:The ending implies that he really was transported, as both Damien and alternate!Alexandra end in our world at the end.]]

* MistakenForCrazy
* MistakenForGay
* MortonsFork
* NoWomansLand
* OhCrap
* OldMaid
* ParentalAbandonment

* LongHairedPrettyBoy: Despite most men in the film having more or less short hair, it seems that the alternate world fetishises long haired men to some degree. The strippers, the prostitutes and the singer at the "queer" bar all have long, flowing, straight hair.
* MajorInjuryUnderreaction
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane
* MetafictionalTitle

* ItWillNeverCatchOn: When pre-accident Damien tries to hit on Alexandra, he asks her when they should meet again, and she says: "[[HilariousInHindsight In another life]]".

* LighterAndSofter
* LikeGoesWithLike
* LongHairedPrettyBoy

* TheBechdelTest: Passes it several times, both as per our universe and the presumed alternate one's conventions.

* InSpiteOfANail: The movie is not really an AlternateHistory, but a complete mirror. Everything and everyone that exists in Damien's previous life also exist here, and in loosely similar positions as to be recognizable (he works at the same place, with the same people, has the same parents and neighbors, etc). The looked down upon female publicist is the boss of the company and the boss is a glorified secretary; Christophe, who is a novelist in our world with Alexandra as a personal assistant, is now the personal assistant to Alexandra, who is the novelist.
* ItWillNeverCatchOn
* LadyLand

The plot follows Damien (Vincent Elbaz), a successful, 40-year old Parisian publicist, a [[AnythingThatMoves confirmed bachellor]] and [[ChickMagnet proud womanizer]], who after being knocked out in an accident, wakes up in a world very much like the one he left behind... [[GenderInvertedTrope except that traditional gender roles have been turned on their heads]], and Damien is now the victim of the same sexist prejudices he had unashamedly exposed himself his whole life. In this world, women dominate society, politics, and religion, they dress in comfortable two-piece suits and are expected to bring home the bacon. Meanwhile, men are pressured to watch their appearance and show (shaved) skin until they find a woman, or to abandon their careers in order to become homemakers and childrearers.

* AccidentalPornomancer: The movie argues that this is an EnforcedTrope for men in RealLife (and for women in the alternate universe).

** Men who campaign for men's rights in the alternate world (or men who are perceived about being too outspoken about it) are called "masculinists".

* AnAesop: Sexism and double standards for gender are bad. We can have some behaviors so interiorized that we don't realize they are sexist.

* BrokenAesop: The movie is devoted to denounce double standards between genders - and yet, 40-year old Damien is played by a 47-year old actor, while 40-year old Alexandra is played by an actress of the same age. It is hard to believe it could be the opposite.
* CallItKarma: Damien, a mysoginist (although not a very outspoken or conscious one) is transported to a LadyLand universe. At the end, [[spoiler: Alexandra, an andrist from that LadyLand, is transported to our universe... which is a NoWomansLand if [[AnAesop we apply the same standards]].]]

** Damien pre-accident, or at least he thinks so. Truth is that he shoots at every woman on sight, so one in a while is bound to fall for him. He also gets cat-called, harassed and almost raped in the alternate world but it is doubtfull he appreciates that.
** LadyLand Alexandra is a Boy Magnet, or at least she is in the way Damien was.
* CloserToEarth: Averted. The movie depicts women (and their equivalent alternate universe men) as enablers of sexism by not standing up to it, if not engaging in it themselves.
* CrazyCatLady: Invoked by several characters trying to paint Damien as an OldMaid for not settling down and marrying. They all keep talking about the fact that he lives alone with his cat, including his own (alternate universe) parents. In contrast, nobody ever mentions that Alexandra lives alone with her chameleon [[spoiler: although it is later revealed that Alexandra is already married to another man and has a daughter with him]].
* CrystalDragonJesus: Both Islam and Christianity exist in the alternate world, except the clergy is female, God is called a "She", and Mary is the prophet/God incarnate rather than Jesus, who is a supporting character in her cult. Muslim men wear hijab.
* DecoyProtagonist: Damien seems the sole protagonist in the trailers and the early movie. However, Alexandra takes over later and displaces him from focus.
* DoubleStandard: '''The''' Movie. Nearly every scene references, spoofs or highlights a real life male-female double standard.
* DrowningMySorrows: After [[spoiler:learning that Alexandra is already married despite accpting his marriage offer]], Damien gets drunk at a bar and is almost raped by a woman who thinks he is "asking for it".
* EthicalSlut: As annoying as Damien's "romancing" may be in the beginning, he is actually not a bad guy and he learns his lesson fast after being thrown in the alternate world. Alexandra is as much a slut in the alternate universe, but she [[spoiler:realizes how cruel she was being with Damien, ruins her career to be with him, and rescues him at the bar.]]
* FantasticRacism: Every misogynist attitude in the real world is a misandrist attitude in the alternate one. There is also a female bartender that refuses to serve Muslim men wearing hijab.
* FishOutOfWater: Damien in the alternate universe. It takes him a while to get tired of being cat-called, in the beginning he actually likes it and hits on the women himself. And when a date brings him to a (male) strip club with pole dancers, he actually laughs his ass off instead of being angry or embarassed.
* FreezeFrameBonus
* GenderFlip
* GenderInvertedTrope
* HighConcept
* HystericalWoman
* InSpiteOfANail

* EthicalSlut
* FantasticRacism
* FishOutOfWater

* ChickMagnet
* CloserToEarth
* CrystalDragonJesus
* DecoyProtagonist
* DoubleStandard
* DrowningMySorrows

** [[file:Alexandra falls in love with Damien for real.]]

* ChivalrousPervert

* AllohistoricalAllusion
* BecomingTheMask
* BrokenAesop
* CharacterDevelopment

* YourNormalIsHourTaboo

* YourCheatingHeart

The plot follows Damien (Vincent Elbaz), a successful, 40-year old Parisian publicist, a [[AnythingThatMoves confirmed bachellor]] and [[ChickMagnet proud womanizer]], who after being knocked out in an accident, wakes up in a world very much like the one he left behind... [[GenderInvertedTrope except that traditional gender roles have been turned on their heads]], and Damien is now the victim of the sexist prejudices he had unashamedly exposed himself his whole life. In this world, women dominate society, religion and politics, they dress in comfortable two-piece suits and are expected to bring home the bacon, while men are pressured to watch their appearance, show skin until they find a wife (or mistress), and renounce their careers to become homemakers and childrearers.

Damien loses his job after being the victim of unwanted sexual advances by his (now female) boss and has to become the personal assistant of Alexandra, a female chauvinist novelist. Despite Alexandra behaving much like Damien did in his previous life ([[LikeGoesWithLike or because of it]]), Damien finds himself falling in love with her, and she seems to reciprocate. However, she is actually milking him for inspiration to write her new novel, titled ''[[MetafictionalTitle I am not an easy man]]'', and plans to dump him as soon as it is finished.

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