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- From: lorreen@meiko.com (Lorreen Pelletier)
- Subject: Re: The Cook...Lover/women's response
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.213746.16342@meiko.com>
- Organization: Meiko Scientific Corp.
- References: <1992Dec27.060611.25351@netcom.com>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 21:37:46 GMT
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- estrayer@netcom.com (Eric Strayer) writes:
- :
- : Regarding the movie The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover,
- : I have some comments, but more importantly, some questions.
- :
- [lots of stuff about wife's reaction and her claim
-
- : that only insensitive (or very young and stupid) men would like anything
- : in that movie.
-
- I am a woman, and I think TCTTHWAHL is one of the very best films I have
- seen. Others have mentioned some of the features which make this an
- excellent film, and I found the emotional impact of this movie very
- impressive. Yes, the movie features repugnant characters, doing repugnant
- things (and these scenes are quite disturbing), but it does not condone
- this behavior. In fact, if this movie had not disturbed its audience, it
- would have failed, in my opinion, as an interesting and relevant movie.
- Some movies are designed to be disturbing.
-
- It irritates me that some people (apparently like your wife) are so
- willing to blind themselves to, or hide themselves from ugliness. As
- humans we must at least face certain ugly truths--and the decadence and
- violence portrayed in TCTTHWAHL are two of these truths. Unlike the
- violence expressed in many popular action/adventure movies, the violence
- in TCTTHWAHL is meaningful, artistically expressed, and *disturbing*.
-
- Please note that "disturbing" does not mean "offensive". The
- movie is disturbing in that it forces us to face man's (read generically as
- "human's", please, as I will continue to use "man" to mean mankind (and,
- yes, ladies, that does (like it or not) include women) dark nature.
-
- This, in brief, is my gut response to this movie. I would like to add
- that it is always annoying to find that some woman has elected to speak
- for all women in voicing her own personal opinions. I am a human being,
- who happens to be a woman, and I frequently find that I have much in
- common with men, (insensitve, young, and stupid included). Your wife
- would be well advised to recognize that in spite of great individual
- diversity, we are all human. Perhaps when she is able to approach
- material with a broad human eye, and her own personal perspective, she
- will no longer feel it necessary to make the kind of sweeping general
- statements such as that which prompted your post.
-
- --Lorreen
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