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Like ebock and alice I did have not responded to "Slippery Slope."

So I really liked the film on my own without any deeper thought put into it. I would recommend it to a friend and would definitely see it again. It was funny, somewhat meaningful, and the story moved along at a good pace. For those who did not see it, I'll give a quick summary.

The film was about a feminist who is trying to quickly raise money to get herself and her new very feminist film to the Cannes Festival, to which it has been accepted. She is a married woman, and she and her husband live about as close to an equal marriage as is possible. They have a housework time clock where each member clocks his/her hours of chores, and by the end of the week the hours should be equal. They also tries in all areas of their life not to gender stereotype, and function in a harmonious yet semi-complicated manner. While her husband is hoping to start trying for a baby (as both their parents encourage), she is busy at work as a film maker and activist. However, when she gets the call informing her that she is invited to the Cannes film festival, she goes to get the film reel, and finds out that it will be a large sum of money. She tries in vain many different avenues to attain the money she needs (asks her parents, tries to get a new job, considers being a participant in paid experiments), but ultimately ends up meeting up with an old friend who gives her a lead. An old actor friend tells her he's involved in the porn industry, and that she should take a look at the work being done. The film ends up really taking a slippery slope into a humorous story of misunderstandings, attitude adjustment, and ultimately determination. 

  So the movie is obviously a comedy and I definitely appreciated the humorous events. However, what I found to be the most interesting in the story was the equal marriage. On the one hand I thought it got a little ridiculous. A time clock for household chores? Sex life turning into a debate instead of a pleasure? Political correctness all the time? I don't think I could live that way. But on the other hand, the idea was well executed and gave a good image of how such an arrangement would work. There would be no underlying resentments, no arguments about everyday things like chores, and no inequality. It almost sounds utopic. I would argue, though, that a true marriage based on love should be able to do these things without all the knitty gritty. I think a balance can be worked out without having perfect inequality. Maybe we should bend the gender rules, or even break them, but I think maybe sometimes a certain person may be more suited to certain things, and this shouldn't be a problem. Either way, I found the idea intriguing and I thought it was well executed in the film.

Overall I would recommend this movie, it's really funny!