Dollhouse - SPOILERS!
This post will contain huge spoilers for Dollhouse, so please do watch it first on Hulu or at the Fox HD streaming website....
(if you didn't watch it on air last night).
I will put all spoilers behind the cut: I was thrilled when I saw the show, but that was last night, right after seeing it.
( spoilers for the first episode 'Ghost' of DOLLHOUSE )
(if you didn't watch it on air last night).
I will put all spoilers behind the cut: I was thrilled when I saw the show, but that was last night, right after seeing it.
( spoilers for the first episode 'Ghost' of DOLLHOUSE )
1. References. When Topher says "The New Moon has made her virgin again" he refers to the legend of Persephone, who upon leaving the underworld bathes with her mother in order to become virgin again (a word which, for the ancient Greeks, meant to be in control one's body).
Then he references Hamlet, in the scene where Hamlet talks about Denmark as a prison. So from those two allusions, we get some crazy "girl coming out of an underworld into a prison" system going on. Also: Rambo reference later in the show? Gold.
2. Language. All the dialogue relates to memory and forgetting, but I especially loved three of Echo's lines: "She's not asleep," "Forget it," and "We were coming out." The first was said when Echo entered Sierra's room, the second when Echo had a flashback to 'her' rape/her initial torture at the Dollhouse, and the third when Sierra barges into the kidnappers' lair. All three can be read as Echo talking about herself and her own condition at the time, which is just a fantastic (River-like way) to have a character repressing memories talk about those memories.
3. 'Cutting' Shots. These are shots that use cuts between two characters to cut up their bodies for fabulous effect. One great instance of this is the 'Sierra gets needles into her scene'. In the former, the cuts between Echo and Sierra make us only see her body in pieces, showing us an objectified image of a woman (legs, breasts), and then the view Joss wants us to use to reevaluate this position of women (Sierra's face, looking back at us in pain, begging for help). I'm really excited to see other ways this show will subvert traditional views of women in film.
Overall, I'd say this is a great first episode that is doing everything I wish Joss had time to do with Inara in Firefly.
(sorry for the longish first post, I'm new. hi!)
ebb_of_laughter | February 15, 12:22 CET
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