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The Secret Men Club
Movie

The Secret Men Club

2019 • Unknown

Woke Score
2
out of 10

Plot

Adham helps a group of his friends join a getaway club for men called “The Secret Men’s Club”. But Adham's own marriage is in trouble as his wife of ten years starts following him to find out what he is keeping from her, which results in many funny situations.

Overall Series Review

The film is an Egyptian comedy centered on a marital conflict where a husband, Adham, creates a 'secret men club' with his friends to find creative ways to escape their wives and commit infidelity. The narrative focuses on the domestic turmoil that results as Adham's wife, Hagar, spies on him to uncover his secret. The themes are strictly related to the age-old comedy trope of marital strife and male irresponsibility, with almost no presence of Western identity politics, civilizational self-hatred, or queer theory. The high score in the Feminism category is directly due to the core premise of celebrating and enabling male infidelity as an escape from the institution of marriage and the family.

Categorical Breakdown

Identity Politics1/10

The film is an Egyptian production with an Arab cast, and the entire conflict is domestic, concerning marital infidelity within that cultural setting. There is no evidence of the narrative focusing on an intersectional lens, immutable characteristics, a critique of 'whiteness,' or forced insertion of diversity. Characters are defined by their roles as husband and wife, or friends.

Oikophobia1/10

The plot concerns the private, moral failing of marital infidelity and its comedic fallout within a contemporary domestic environment. There is no narrative hostility toward the culture, ancestors, or core institutions of the local civilization. The focus remains strictly on the personal relationship drama.

Feminism7/10

The core plot mechanism is the 'Secret Men’s Club,' which exists specifically to help members find creative ways to cheat on their wives and shirk marital responsibility. This framing presents the nuclear family and marriage as a 'prison' from which men must escape, which is a fundamentally anti-natal and anti-family message. The men are seeking to be irresponsible, while the wife is active in trying to uncover the truth.

LGBTQ+1/10

The narrative centers completely on the heterosexual, traditional marriage between Adham and Hagar, and the infidelity of the husband. There is no inclusion of alternative sexualities, no lecturing on gender theory, and no deconstruction of the nuclear family beyond the direct moral conflict of cheating within it.

Anti-Theism2/10

As a marital comedy about cheating, the film does not engage in an explicit critique of religion or traditional faith. The central moral issue is the immorality of infidelity, but the movie is primarily played for laughs rather than offering a philosophical critique of objective truth or framing religious characters as villains.