I tend to ignore “Everything wrong with the world,” statements because they’re reductive. They try to boil down the complexities of the modern civilization and humanity into one problem, and if we can just solve that problem, then we’ll all live in a society filled with sunshine and rainbows. And while its observations and solutions may seem obvious and somewhat facile, Jennifer Siebel Newsom’s advocacy documentary The Mask You Live In still makes a strong case that the diseased root of our awful culture comes from our society promoting outdated and harmful notions of masculinity. The director tries to cover a lot of ground, and while that’s to the detriment of any specific argument, the overall picture depicts a culture that desperately