Fatal Attraction and American Beauty
So, I decided to rent out some classics. Interesting results.
FATAL ATTRACTION
Dude! This movie was epic! Glen Close was a total and freaky creeper. I honestly don't recommend watching this alone.
It's not because it's nightmare-inducing chilling, but it's way more fun to be all "She's going to be- AAAH THERE SHE IS!!!" It kept you on the edge of your seat and I really regretted needing to pause it halfway through to go to Target. Although it the premise seems really outlandish, it doesn't seem unbelievable at all. It just has to do with very desperate and very unstable characters. It was very, very interesting, especially because it was made in a time where relationships between men and women were being examined.
Heh. Little girl looked like Carson.
Girlies, make your boyfriend watch this movie, they will never cheat on you. Ever.
AMERICAN BEAUTY
Now, this is one of those movies that is referenced in any and every film text ever written ever in the history of the universe. It is positively oozing with social commentary and symbolism and good acting and controversy.
The problem is that it's so bloody hard to watch. I didn't really like any of the characters in the film. That was probably the point of it. Or they were trying to make a point out of that. I don't care. I want one- at least one character that I can like. They don't have to be good. They can even be terrible people, but there has to be something behind it. I guess all of the characters were sympathetic in a way, but I think too much emphasis was put on where they are now, and strange and creepy and secret contradictions that make them poignant, but not interesting. We never got to know them well enough. Lester was the main character, but he was too emotionless to love.
This movie seemed like a message, but no story. There was plenty to think about. It brings up the nature of how people behave, and how they want to behave. Desire and repression. Oddities, kinks and freaks every day and in every person. But it was like a museum. "Hello and welcome to the exhibit on suburban America and how messed up they are." The ending felt almost random to me. What it lacked was progression. We didn't want Lester to act on his desires. His desires were despicable. The tension didn't grow, it was just a combination of symbols symbolically meshing to make up some kind of meaning.
Yes. Weirdness is beautiful. Life is horrible and wonderful and painful and beautiful. But from there pick one thing, just one action and one reaction that makes it that way. Using that as a thesis to a story is too big. People don't represent ideas. People make ideas.
I'll probably have to write a paper on it. Alas.
FATAL ATTRACTION
Dude! This movie was epic! Glen Close was a total and freaky creeper. I honestly don't recommend watching this alone.
It's not because it's nightmare-inducing chilling, but it's way more fun to be all "She's going to be- AAAH THERE SHE IS!!!" It kept you on the edge of your seat and I really regretted needing to pause it halfway through to go to Target. Although it the premise seems really outlandish, it doesn't seem unbelievable at all. It just has to do with very desperate and very unstable characters. It was very, very interesting, especially because it was made in a time where relationships between men and women were being examined.
Heh. Little girl looked like Carson.
Girlies, make your boyfriend watch this movie, they will never cheat on you. Ever.
AMERICAN BEAUTY
Now, this is one of those movies that is referenced in any and every film text ever written ever in the history of the universe. It is positively oozing with social commentary and symbolism and good acting and controversy.
The problem is that it's so bloody hard to watch. I didn't really like any of the characters in the film. That was probably the point of it. Or they were trying to make a point out of that. I don't care. I want one- at least one character that I can like. They don't have to be good. They can even be terrible people, but there has to be something behind it. I guess all of the characters were sympathetic in a way, but I think too much emphasis was put on where they are now, and strange and creepy and secret contradictions that make them poignant, but not interesting. We never got to know them well enough. Lester was the main character, but he was too emotionless to love.
This movie seemed like a message, but no story. There was plenty to think about. It brings up the nature of how people behave, and how they want to behave. Desire and repression. Oddities, kinks and freaks every day and in every person. But it was like a museum. "Hello and welcome to the exhibit on suburban America and how messed up they are." The ending felt almost random to me. What it lacked was progression. We didn't want Lester to act on his desires. His desires were despicable. The tension didn't grow, it was just a combination of symbols symbolically meshing to make up some kind of meaning.
Yes. Weirdness is beautiful. Life is horrible and wonderful and painful and beautiful. But from there pick one thing, just one action and one reaction that makes it that way. Using that as a thesis to a story is too big. People don't represent ideas. People make ideas.
I'll probably have to write a paper on it. Alas.