Randomness...
Part I
A few days ago... I ran across across a great sale on DVDs a few days ago and managed to picked up Closer and House of Flying Daggers for a great price.
House of Flying Daggers has just set on the Entertainment stand... Closer, I've adored. I picked it up, not fully realizing exactly what it truly was. It's listed as romance/drama.. but this is not your date movie. It is harsh, wordy, vocal, forward, straight and more honest about relationships then I've seen before. Most of all... it was adult. It lacked pampering, pats on the back and molly-coddling. It stayed cold, honest and forceful of the true nature of dysfunctional relationships.
I remember being captured completely by the force of emotion, captured not within the faces of female leads, but those of the male leads... so often in movies they focus on how heart broken and shattered the women are, how emotionally torn apart and destroyed. Here, it was equal. I love the scene where Anna and Larry are first discovering each other's affairs. Nothing they say is suitable for posting here, not without so many lj-cuts to make the post not really even readable. Regardless. The speak as real people, real couples. Nothing hidden, nothing cleaned up, nothing painted pretty for the screen. Raw emotion everywhere... even in the faces of the men. In the faces of the men, whose normal reactions to emotional stress on screen are so commonly hidden, kept overly-focused or even sometimes even ignored. This movie, was all about emotion. This movie, is not for everyone.
Part II
Towards the beginning of Closer... there is a "cyber-sex" scene between Larry and Dan (pretending to be Anna). I had to rewind this scene and re-watch it. Not for any 'turn on' value of it, but for the shock value of it. And then I sit back and wonder. Lines like:
DDW: do u want sex?
DOC9: yes. describe u.
DDW: blonde. big mouth. epic tits.
DDW: I want 2 suck u senseless
It's not that I'm sitting here being offending, no... no... That's not it at all. I'm sitting here thinking -- what man could possibly be turned on by that. It's not even proper grammar. Yeah. Those are the thoughts weeding through my sticky little mind. I'm not thinking about blondeness or breast size, I'm thinking about capitalization and sentence structure. I'm being annoyed that someone spelled 2 with a number rather then as "two". I'm questioning how men... men whose characters are suppose to well educated, cultured, men of taste and refinement -- can find this... even remotely -- appealing.
But then again... I am a girl.
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To read the actually scene... go here and search for 'london sex anon'. Warning: Graphic.
A few days ago... I ran across across a great sale on DVDs a few days ago and managed to picked up Closer and House of Flying Daggers for a great price.
House of Flying Daggers has just set on the Entertainment stand... Closer, I've adored. I picked it up, not fully realizing exactly what it truly was. It's listed as romance/drama.. but this is not your date movie. It is harsh, wordy, vocal, forward, straight and more honest about relationships then I've seen before. Most of all... it was adult. It lacked pampering, pats on the back and molly-coddling. It stayed cold, honest and forceful of the true nature of dysfunctional relationships.
I remember being captured completely by the force of emotion, captured not within the faces of female leads, but those of the male leads... so often in movies they focus on how heart broken and shattered the women are, how emotionally torn apart and destroyed. Here, it was equal. I love the scene where Anna and Larry are first discovering each other's affairs. Nothing they say is suitable for posting here, not without so many lj-cuts to make the post not really even readable. Regardless. The speak as real people, real couples. Nothing hidden, nothing cleaned up, nothing painted pretty for the screen. Raw emotion everywhere... even in the faces of the men. In the faces of the men, whose normal reactions to emotional stress on screen are so commonly hidden, kept overly-focused or even sometimes even ignored. This movie, was all about emotion. This movie, is not for everyone.
Part II
Towards the beginning of Closer... there is a "cyber-sex" scene between Larry and Dan (pretending to be Anna). I had to rewind this scene and re-watch it. Not for any 'turn on' value of it, but for the shock value of it. And then I sit back and wonder. Lines like:
DDW: do u want sex?
DOC9: yes. describe u.
DDW: blonde. big mouth. epic tits.
DDW: I want 2 suck u senseless
It's not that I'm sitting here being offending, no... no... That's not it at all. I'm sitting here thinking -- what man could possibly be turned on by that. It's not even proper grammar. Yeah. Those are the thoughts weeding through my sticky little mind. I'm not thinking about blondeness or breast size, I'm thinking about capitalization and sentence structure. I'm being annoyed that someone spelled 2 with a number rather then as "two". I'm questioning how men... men whose characters are suppose to well educated, cultured, men of taste and refinement -- can find this... even remotely -- appealing.
But then again... I am a girl.
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To read the actually scene... go here and search for 'london sex anon'. Warning: Graphic.