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If you don't know what it's about, here: This dork falls in love with a beautiful woman who couldn't care less about him. One day while she's at his house she gets hit by a car, and he (being a doctor) amputates her legs. He doesn't take her to a doctor, though, he just cares for her at home. Later after she tries to strangle him, he amputates her arms too. I love the part where you find out he's done that. She's sitting in an open box on the table staring blankly out at nothing and then she just starts Laughing, and he runs from the room. My impression was that she was laughing at him because this is the only way he could "Get" her. Anyway, I won't give away the ending. It's a really great flick, and what happens near the end (at the climax) really surprised me, but what happend RIGHT at the end (after the climax) was predictable. It was also dissapointing and reassuring at the same time. I'm so glad Kim Basinger bailed out on this film. She NEVER could have done the steller job Fenn did. Never Never Never. Go see it. |
Ever. I think it's the Clockwork Orange of the 90s |
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ps...go rent Boxing Hellena. There's sex in it. That should appeal to most of you. |
At the risk of sounding like one of those radical right morons who spend liters of breath condemning whatever art exhibit/movie/TV show that happens to be controversial that week, only to answer to the negative when asked if they have seen said art exhibit/movie/TV show with their own two eyes: I haven't seen the movie, and I don't want to. The concept of cutting off a woman's limbs and keeping her in a box is just disgusting to me. Have you ever counted how many incidences of sexual violence towards women you see on TV or in movies in a single week? Like that movie "Kiss the Girls." What was that except an excuse to show women being terrorized? Or "The General's Daughter" -- were all those scenes of that woman pinned naked necessary? Or all those made-for-TV movies on Lifetime...one rape, kidnapping, abusive marriage, woman-in-peril situation after the other. (PS. I had another dream about you. This time you were sitting on my couch. You looked like you were about 12, and you had really skinny legs and dark blond hair that was slightly wavy and cut above your shoulders. You kept using these weird phrases that I assumed to be strange Canadian slang, and each time you would say a phrase, and I would ask you what it meant, and you would answer with another weird phrase. One I remember was "I'm so sparky." ???) |
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Cyst, I whole-heartedly agree. |
I keep thinking about taking some martial arts class or something because I think it would be fun, but I have virtually no fear of being attacked, so there isn't that much of an incentive. |
And only an idiot wouldn't want women to learn how to defend themselves. I've taken two classes in self-defense myself, because at my height, I intimidate only young children and small dogs. |
Violence against women happens, and I don't think it would stop if they didn't make movies about it anymore. I don't mean that to sound dismissive and casual, just that bad things happen to people and it sucks, but it Happens. Anyway, I didn't see Boxing Hellena as a movie that was about "violence against women". It was more about the sick "love" this guy had for Hellena and how in the end (sorry to ruin it) she had no choice but to love him back. It was either that or be alone, which I'm sure you all know is the worst possible thing in the world that could happen to anyone. Usually when I watch a movie I don't put it into a world context. I just think about what's happening in the tiny world of the people on the screen. I see two people who have a sick and bizzare relationship, not a metiphore for the world of men being mean to women. Weren't you the one who loved Twin Peaks, Rhia? There was quite a bit of violence against women in the movie, wasn't there? That was a Lot more gorey than Boxing Hellena. All of the "bad" stuff that happened in BH was pretty tame. Off screen. No blood or guts. It was psycological. I'm probably not doing a very good job of defending it. I go back to what I said in the begining: it's just a movie. (ps...I look about 16, I don't have skinny legs, my hair is kind of wavy, and it looks dark blond to me, but everyone seems to have a different opinion. I think the most popular choice is "strawberry blond". I don't know a lot of weird canadian phrases, but I really like "I'm so sparky.". Because I am, you know. I'm so sparky.) |
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Have you ever heard the song "Jennifer's Body"? It reminds me of your descriptions of this movie. |