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[matildawormwood]

Has anyone seen the movie Safe? Well, I did this morning, and the more I think about it, the more I love it. Essentially, Julianne Moore plays a wealthy suburban housewife who becomes increasingly "allergic" to, basically, the 20th century. She gets a nose bleed while having her hair permed, vomits after smelling her husband's (ably played by

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[matildawormwood]

I've heard such things about Colorado. Also Montana. I will probably wait until they vacate to give those states a visit.

[cashbox]

i love Safe. and not just for Xander Berkeley. mostly, because it's one of those movies that doesn't seem creepy until you're seeing images of Evil Suburbia in your head three weeks later and every subdivision looks like it's crawling with Tiny Death Things.

also i should point out i'm a little hypochondriac.

[matildawormwood]

YES. Seriously. All yesterday, I kept thinking "wow, if I had EI, I wouldn't be able to do 98% of the things I'm doing right now and that would SUUUUCK." Mostly they had to do with food and eating.

[whimsicalmutant]

That movie is fantastic; I watched it at 1 am in the morning about a year ago. I really need to hunt down the Karen Carpenter Barbie Doll movie.

Everything Todd Haynes does seems like it should be hitting you over the head- but he makes it work. Whether by using JMoore in stylish yet oppressive housefrau gear or Batman and Obi-Wan Kenobi's mad butt lovin'; the dude has no mercy. He got a good performance out of the lesser Quaid (Dennis), which he's stingy to fork over.

In a perfect world; cicra mid to late 90's he would have had the buzz and opportunity that Eli "thrice warmed crap" Roth has about now and would be directing a bazillion dollar scifi movie about Lauren Ambrose as a robot assassin who foils a plot by David Strathairn involving the mass product of lip gloss and healthcare reform which would rule because that would be the kind of world we live in. But Haynes is a good director with style, intelligence and creativity; and the machine won't stand for that apparently.

HOLY CRAP SMASHLEY

[whimsicalmutant]

Todd Haynes is listening to your brain

Except he misread Gary Oldman as Colin Farrell- but that's a kind of misunderstood circumstance sad bastard pain that you'd be all about. Except for the part where there's no Gary Oldman but there is Howler Monkey descendent Colin Farrell.

I also think of Todd T Squirrel whever I think of Todd Haynes.

Re: HOLY CRAP SMASHLEY

[matildawormwood]

DUDE OH MY SHIT. I saw that last night! BALE! BLANCHETT!! BOB DYLAN!!!

Haynes is totally in my brain. Maybe Colin Farrell dies a horrible and painful death in every scene, a la Kenny in South Park. If old Todd is truly in my brain, this will most certainly be so.

Oh man, the Karen Carpenter movie is genius. He actually whittles down the doll as she gets more & more anorexic. Genius. I'm not sure if it's out anywhere on DVD-- I had to conscript someone with a better computer to download it. I'm sure it's still floating somewhere about the internets.

And I am intruiged by your perfect world, and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

ok, SO:

[matildawormwood]

It would appear that the site that used to host an illegal download of Superstar has very uncooly stopped providing such a wondrous service. However! If you go here, you can download a quicktime vesion that will play on a teeny shitty little window, but PLAY it shall.

[librolibra]

I thought Safe was great, in an unsettling kind of way.

Also, Mexico, WTF? Do they have regulation plans in line with their legalization plans? How did it go from letting addicts have drugs and then go to treatment to letting everyone have massive amounts of stuff. Whoa. This makes Spring Break a whole new exciting thing, hmm.

[matildawormwood]

Maybe it'll be the solution to America's immigration "problem." More jobs will be generated by the influx of spoiled rich white kids, strengthening the Mexican economy and negating the need for emigration to attain a living wage. Also, you know, legal drugs.