Oh, I really liked Crash (we just got it in the cinemas over here! *kicks slow release dates*) I saw it with my mum, she's like a fandom's dream, but an arthouse film's worst nightmare. She's really smart, but when she watches a film or reads a book, she reacts exactly as she's supposed to, or else the most simply. So she loathed Matt Dillon's character off bat because he was a racist, and then when he saved the woman, she was all 'I guess he wasn't that bad after all, then?' I was like 'No, he's the same guy who was racist and sexist before. Just like when he was feeling her up, he was the same guy who cared for his dad.' I love stories where there's no heroes to root for. (Or like in the Satanic house film you mentioned, ones where the heroes/leads are transforming into the threat. Nothing scarier. I remember watching the Fly when I was about ten - WTF?! ;) and thinking that becoming a monster was the ultimate nightmare.) Everyone in the film was as bad as each other (even the woman at the insurance firm, who was only in it for a few minutes, iirc!)
It's one of those stories based on the premise that if a woman is so annoying I can't see how anyone can stand her for 5 minutes, she is therefore irresistible to men.
Hee! I wonder if there's a male equivalent. I guess the bad guy who beats out the nice best friend? But it seems that women are usually the ones to inspire men with their wacky way of looking at life, or whatever. A man would probably just come off creepy. (That, and women don't seem to 'need' to be inspired in the same way in films. All they usually want is babies or whatever, rather than anything as intellectual/spiritual as a new way of looking at life. And I don't think they put men on a pedestal in quite the same way.)
Now, I happen to love that kind of idea--the extra step appearing, the clock striking 13, a door appearing where there was none before.
Yeah, me too. I used to love a book when I was small about a tree which had a magic hole in it. It swallowed up the bad guy at the end and then sealed up forever. Brr!
I think I really liked seeing her grab on to that--so often movies about girls in high school center around romantic rivalry, but here it's all about being the best, and while the outcast in particular wishes for love, it's in the form of female friendship.
I love stories about female friendships. There's so many about male ones, but much less about female ones, apart from yeah, the inevitable fighting over a man. It's cheesy and lame of me, but I'm really fond of this film with *blush* Lindsey Lohan, called 'Mean Girls'. Kind of about how bitchy girls can be to each other, but not in an anti-girl way. Reminded me of school!
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Date: 2005-09-15 07:30 pm (UTC)I saw it with my mum, she's like a fandom's dream, but an arthouse film's worst nightmare. She's really smart, but when she watches a film or reads a book, she reacts exactly as she's supposed to, or else the most simply. So she loathed Matt Dillon's character off bat because he was a racist, and then when he saved the woman, she was all 'I guess he wasn't that bad after all, then?' I was like 'No, he's the same guy who was racist and sexist before. Just like when he was feeling her up, he was the same guy who cared for his dad.'
I love stories where there's no heroes to root for. (Or like in the Satanic house film you mentioned, ones where the heroes/leads are transforming into the threat. Nothing scarier. I remember watching the Fly when I was about ten - WTF?! ;) and thinking that becoming a monster was the ultimate nightmare.)
Everyone in the film was as bad as each other (even the woman at the insurance firm, who was only in it for a few minutes, iirc!)
It's one of those stories based on the premise that if a woman is so annoying I can't see how anyone can stand her for 5 minutes, she is therefore irresistible to men.
Hee! I wonder if there's a male equivalent. I guess the bad guy who beats out the nice best friend?
But it seems that women are usually the ones to inspire men with their wacky way of looking at life, or whatever. A man would probably just come off creepy. (That, and women don't seem to 'need' to be inspired in the same way in films. All they usually want is babies or whatever, rather than anything as intellectual/spiritual as a new way of looking at life. And I don't think they put men on a pedestal in quite the same way.)
Now, I happen to love that kind of idea--the extra step appearing, the clock striking 13, a door appearing where there was none before.
Yeah, me too. I used to love a book when I was small about a tree which had a magic hole in it. It swallowed up the bad guy at the end and then sealed up forever. Brr!
I think I really liked seeing her grab on to that--so often movies about girls in high school center around romantic rivalry, but here it's all about being the best, and while the outcast in particular wishes for love, it's in the form of female friendship.
I love stories about female friendships. There's so many about male ones, but much less about female ones, apart from yeah, the inevitable fighting over a man. It's cheesy and lame of me, but I'm really fond of this film with *blush* Lindsey Lohan, called 'Mean Girls'. Kind of about how bitchy girls can be to each other, but not in an anti-girl way. Reminded me of school!