Good start, but then it gets ruined

n my opinion it was a great movie with some interesting elements, even though having some plot holes and the ending probably was just too messy and crammed together, but still fun to watch and not your casual movie that is similar to all other ones.

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

To be fair I turned this movie off almost at once. If you want to make a film about women's rights to be legally equal to men, and you title your film after a political movement to show breasts are not offensive, sexual or shameful you don't blur out the women's breasts. By doing so you are sending the exact opposite message. By blurring out the breasts this film is saying that they should stay covered because it might offend someone.This film is a waste of time and money. It works in direct opposition to women's rights.If you want to make a film like this you must have the courage to actually free the nipple. Otherwise, don't bother.

This low budget production is based on a true story. It was produced by, directed by, and written by Lina Esco. The story is about activism in New York City to establish the right of women to show their breasts in public. The courts already said that women have that right, but local police still harassed women who go topless.By the end of the film, the cause is broadened to emphasize all censorship, including film censorship. This is how it should be, as the display of female anatomy is part of the larger issue of self-expression and the libertarian viewpoint that we all have the right to act however we wish as long as we are not hurting another. As the film rightfully points out, religions play a central role in the creation of taboos and the exercise of censorship.But the best part of the film is Lina Esco, whose presence as the central character of this film has an energy that reminds me of Angelina Jolie or Katie Holmes. I did find it confusing that the film sometimes pixelates the topless women. Obviously, this was done for artistic reasons, because the film does not shy from the display of nudity, per its purpose. But this is a minor confusion; it does not dampen the film's enthusiasm for its cause.

Having watched this film purely out of curiosity towards the movement it really has swayed me to believe in it. It is not just about giving women the opportunity to walk around the streets topless just as many men do freely in the summer months, in fact it's hardly about that at all. It's about societies approach to female nudity and how we are censored from birth, forced into a mindset that sees nudity as obscene and something that should be avoided at all cost. It is the basis by which women and men are seen as completely different and therefore treated completely different. Woman have nipples, men have nipples, yet just because women have a little more behind theirs they must cover them up? When you really think about it, it's so clearly wrong. The film was an interesting look at the approach of activists and, although clearly made on a budget, it gives a small insight into the amount that some people sacrifice in order to get a few others to think about something for just a few seconds in the hopes of evolving the way our society works.

Now, I believe in fighting for a cause. Abolishing child poverty, I'll be right there in the trenches with you. Banning nuclear arms, I'll stand outside a government building for hours, waving placards. Freedom of speech? Need you ask? But campaigning for the right for women to go topless publicly? THIS is the basis for a feature film? SERIOUSLY?!Forget about the absolute chaos that would ensue from the thousands of pervs that would actively be pursuing them just for a picture or a quick ogle. And leave aside the concern that no-one wants to be caught between a mass of jigging body parts on the tube en route to work. Let's just focus on the fact they've made a MOTION PICTURE based on this flimsy premise alone... And treat it with the same solemnity as they would if it were about World War II.So, we get quotes from luminaries varying from Gandhi to Larry Flynt, plenty of philosophising about how America loves violence but yet is remarkably puritanical about nudity, and plenty of girls running round brassiere-free... All in a good cause, of course. This footage will be used to CHANGE THE PLANET, and won't just be jerking material for some sad little virgin in his parent's basement...I actually thought at first this was going to be a documentary... But when the cast started to try and act, I had a sinking feeling... Which unfortunately, stayed with me till the end. It might be 'Based On A True Story', but this kind of script has been rehashed, redone and recycled to such an extent it may as well form it's own genre.There's the ragtag band of misfits coming together for a common cause, they start off small but gradually get larger, then comes a minor setback which they navigate with difficulty... Followed by in-fighting, bickering... Which is also resolved eventually with a metaphorical GROUP HUG. Then, just when things are looking up... Then arrives the MAJOR crisis which threatens to end the entire movement. But not to worry... Thanks to the magic of bumper stickers, posters and endless montages, a happy conclusion is inevitable.The performances are amateurish to say the least, but I'm sure they weren't expecting any Oscars from this project. The attempts at comparing this 'struggle' to great travesties of the past is a LOT more embarrassing than walking around Times Square with your breasts hanging out. The use of the annoying theme song 'Free The Nipple' throughout is repetitive and distracting. Oh, and there's a blink-and-you'll-miss-it lesbian kiss between the two main protagonists. I'm not sure why they stuck that in there, since it doesn't lead to anything and is never referenced again. Target audience, anyone? It's fantastic you believe in something, it really is. Go shout about it from the rooftops. Harangue them on the streets. Spread as much propaganda about it as you want. Just don't bother making a rather pointless, sterile film about the subject. No-one watching it is going to be converted to your way of thinking, one way or the other. Perhaps the money spent making it would have been better put towards trying to establish more nudist beaches. There, you can swing your bits to your hearts content... And not cause pile-ups or waste police time in the process. You know it makes sense. 4/10