Anatomy of Hell
Jul. 26th, 2009 11:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lunabee34Besides agreeing with Roger Ebert who says: [it] plays like porn dubbed by bitter deconstructionist theoreticians and nearly changing the title of my journal to a pestilential skin, I am curious about a plot point and Google doth fail me.
Are we to assume that The Man killed The Woman on the first night (which is the only night that he's on the cliff) and the rest of the film is something he imagined? Are we to assume that he killed her at the point in the narrative at which he went back to the house and found it abandoned or are we to assume that her death isn't literal but metaphorical?
I do not think I am deep enough to appreciate this movie for yea verily do I wish I had that hour and twenty minutes back.
Are we to assume that The Man killed The Woman on the first night (which is the only night that he's on the cliff) and the rest of the film is something he imagined? Are we to assume that he killed her at the point in the narrative at which he went back to the house and found it abandoned or are we to assume that her death isn't literal but metaphorical?
I do not think I am deep enough to appreciate this movie for yea verily do I wish I had that hour and twenty minutes back.
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Date: 2009-07-27 04:26 am (UTC)I will say the title makes it sound like one of the 100s of shock-horror-porn that apparently is more acceptable than anything that has to do with meaningful relationships among adults, m-f, m-m, f-f, or trio combinations.
It makes me think of from way back when where all these people were freaking out over OMG GAY COWBOYS! Meanwhile, hacking people up with an axe and other heinous, bloody travesties to being human is YEAH HOW COOL IS THAT!
And Huh -- so the movie has nothing to do with how the title sounds. I stand corrected and sit in the corner with my vodka tonic. I just read ebert's review. And I'm still not sure what the movie is about, but then I've also been drinking and watching 'design star' and 'next food network star' so I think my brain is partway to mush.
random thought: I'm looking forward to seeing the movie Jule and Julia.
In any case, I suspect there is little point or meaning to this uninformative reply. So I'll leave you with a movie recommendation. There's a little French film (i saw it on the french language network Monde5 when I lived in Lafayette, LA) about a teenage girl coming of age, struggling, and of her sessions with a psychiatrist. I recall absolutely loving it. It's called "Oui, Mais..." and is on Netflix.
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Date: 2009-07-27 05:03 pm (UTC)I have a hard time understanding French theory and I pretty much agree with everything that Ebert said in his review. I think it's telling that when I googled the film, I only found one positive review. All the others were negative. I had seen an interview with Breillat (the director) as part of a documentary that IFC did on sex and she was really interesting and well-spoken. I think I just picked the wrong one of her movies to watch. LOL
I will have to check that movie out. Thank you for the rec!