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  • Hilarious in Hindsight: Though in a minor extent, the concept of an entirely female-dominated world (with a few men) is later joked in one of the Anime series.
  • Memetic Mutation: In Poland it's actually more of a Fountain of Memes.
    • "Darkness, I see darkness!" note 
    • "A woman is beating me!".
    • "Copernicus was a woman!"note 
    • "Let's go east — there's bound to be some civilization there!". note 
    • "There may be permilles in it!"note 
    • "Morning, is Yola in?" note 
  • Misaimed Hatedom: After being screened in cinemas in the West, this movie got a lot of flak from feminist community, who deemed it as "fascist" and "sexist", even claiming that they were "manipulated" by it, since they actually found themselves rooting for the male leads while watching it. This is despite the fact that this movie has absolutely nothing in common with feminism or sexism and is purely a satire on totalitarian communist regime that still held Poland it its grip at the time of the movie's making and release. Choosing to portray it via fictional female-only society was an element of form, rather than substance (and means of fooling communists censors), therefore criticising it for being "sexist" that way makes just as much sense as claming that Animal Farm tried to tell us that animals (or pigs and dogs, at the very least) are inherently evil. Then again, such reaction is somewhat understandable, given the fact that said flak — see above — came from Western feminist community, who had little to no contact with harsh reality of Eastern Bloc of the time, making oh so many more or less subtle jabs at the communist regime fly right over their heads.
  • The Problem with Licensed Games: The film received a video game adaptation, A.D. 2044, in 1991 for Atari 8-Bit Computers, which was remade for Microsoft Windows in 1996. The second game especially was criticized as a poor clone of Myst, with a badly translated narrative, models that fall into the Uncanny Valley, and poorly mixed music and dialogue. It also added a new Adaptation Expansion that falls into Unfortunate Implications, where the few remaining men in the world are hunted and are subject to forced sex change surgery.
  • Values Dissonance: While the film was created as a satire of totalitarianism and the policies of the then communist government of Poland, its allegorical use of an all-female society drew some Unfortunate Implications today. Several Polish feminist reviewers accuse the film of promoting a misogynist worldview, in associating feminism with authoritarian communism, and depicting an all-female world as a dystopia ruled by a supreme leader who is really a man in drag.

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