The movie is largely about DV, and I personally don't feel it did a very good job of tackling that subject, but to be fair, it would probably be very difficult for a mass-market movie to do a really good job of addressing the subject.
Did you already watch Blink Twice?
Haven’t seen that yet. I’m hearing mixed things but might eventually get to it, who knows. Been reading about Durov due to the nature of my job, and even more convinced now that Tatum just doesn’t work at all for that type of persona. Gimme David Tennant, or something. But then, I’m biased towards Tennant.
On DV, I am a lifelong fan of
Wüthering Heights and think that, well, this kind of unhealthy/abusive relationship porn has endured for centuries for a reason. It does, I think, work really well as a story, it taps into something very primal and animalistic in human nature, if only that women are physically weaker and must always contend with the male capacity for violence. So in that sense, I rather boringly and predictably disagree. I wish there were more films being made that unabashedly portrayed these types of relationships where women choose not to leave, with no moralising, ‘moral lessons’, ‘empowerment’ and so forth. In terms of what appeals to me, on a narrative level, that would be a ‘mass market movie’, if you will, that’s about something else entirely but happens to feature an abusive relationship and doesn’t ‘interrogate’ that in the slightest.
The Conformist is so much better for just showing what it chooses to show, including what one might call, I guess, that sort of violence, while not dwelling or moralising.
Anyway, I doubt I’ll like this very much, but there’s nothing really showing now that I’m interested in, so this’ll have to do. On Sunday I plan to watch
Sing Sing which I’m even less enthused by.
Yeah, this is very lame. The psychology of how women end up in these situations is reasonably thorough here, imo, compared with most of this kind of stuff, anyway, but overall it’s just kind of boring (and the very deliberate attempt at a feminist ending of, ‘Oh but she’s going to stay single now! Forever! Like a strong woman!’ Lol. For ****’s sake. Not to mention even that didn’t work out in a clean manner).
What a demented mess of preachy garbage, holy hell.
What a waste of a night. Never trying chick flicks again. I am just genuinely lost as to what possesses people to make that sort of thing.