What's the point with this film? That just because the genders have been reversed, my sympathies would actually fall differently? Is this really still an issue?

What's the point with this film? That just because the genders have been reversed, my sympathies would actually fall differently? Is this really still an issue? This seems like a student project from the late 80s. If there is an opposite to "poignant" or "relevant", this is it.