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- From: molly@coos.dartmouth.edu (Revolver)
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- Subject: Re: The Cook...Lover/women's response
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.201743.15024@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 20:17:43 GMT
- References: <1992Dec27.060611.25351@netcom.com> <1992Dec28.075047.23608@datamark.co.nz>
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- thomas@datamark.co.nz (Thomas Beagle) writes:
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- >In article <1992Dec27.060611.25351@netcom.com> estrayer@netcom.com (Eric Strayer) writes:
- >>*** Specifically I want to know if women find the
- >>film particularly offensive to women, and if they
- >>consider this to be a normal or expected reaction.
- >>From the men, I don't have any specific questions
- >>but comments pertaining to the questions I pose to
- >>the women will still be appreciated.***
-
-
- This, of all Peter Greenaway's movies, is one of my very favorites. The
- language used recently to describe "Dracula" [opulent, rococo, lush,
- extravagant] is, i think, more aptly used to describe this movie.
-
- Its undercurrent of commentary on the extraordinarily stratified and
- _accepted_ brutality performed daily in the name of gentility and class
- preservation was skilful and subtle, and, IMHO, often overlooked in the
- brouhaha about the violent and disturbing elements of the movie.
-
- To be sure, i don't entirely understand your wife's response. As a
- woman, I was actually quite pleased with the Wife's character,
- especially with the very end, which i thought was enormously, though
- blackly, funny. I didn't find anything especially male-oriented about
- the movie, and if anything, it portrays men none too kindly, with the
- Thief's brutality, and his henchmen's all-too-eager willingness to go
- along with and enjoy it just to stay in his good graces. [and, perhaps,
- discovering their own long-denied love for such horrors.]
-
- Yes, it is a deeply disturbing movie. Yes, there are many things that
- are repellent, and I will be the first to say that the movie is not for
- everyone. But for the imagery, the cinematography, the depth of the
- characters, and the skill of the satire, i number it among my favorites,
- and have since first viewing.
-
- As a side note, I saw it the same afternoon that I was dragged to see
- "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" - surely a far more wrenching jolt to the
- senses than any Mr. Greenaway could dream up.
-
- - M
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