Its so grotesque too because the actual facts of the case are out there, in explicit detail if anyone wants to read them… and if he read the facts, and came to the conclusion that she consented then I never want any woman (let alone 13yr old girl) be alone in a room with Taratino…
@gadgetgirl - I wanted to like Kill Bill so much, but I couldn’t get over the “Pussy Wagon”.
I’ve seen Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, and that CSI episode Tarantino directed. None of them were my idea to watch, and I really don’t see what the big deal is.
There’s a certain type of “strong female lead” film that is less about women, and more about what the director can do the woman. How much pain she can endure to show how “strong” she is. And man, am I tired of that…
I just watched Brimstone.
So its been on my mind. I really wanted that movie to be more than it was.
But in the end it was just how much this one (female) character can suffer.
Well, that and the Bride getting her revenge.
Tarantino’s work is such a mixed bag for me; I enjoyed Rez Dogs, Pulp and Kill Bill, even though I think Tarantino himself has issues and most of his films are overrated… plus I don’t think I’d like the man himself if I met him. (I can just imagine trying to affectate a fake “cool Black accent” in my presence and me having to restrain myself from assaulting him.)
“I knew that I care about equality, so I deluded myself into thinking that I wasn’t part of the problem. I assumed that my passive concern would be enough. Passive concern never is.”
Beautiful.
That ties into the “automating inequality” mentioned above. And, yes, we do need more Ed Youngs. For multiple reasons.
Hellooooo Suckerpunch…
I always see it as an update of the “patient Griselda” stories from medieval Europe: man forces woman to endure all sorts of suffering, then in the end declares if she can bear all that without complaint he’ll love her.
I skipped that one completely; nothing about it sounded worthwhile, not even the special effects.
Suckerpunch was terrible, just one long over-experienced videogame trailers masquerading as a movie. There was a decent plot twist at the end, but not enough to justify sitting through the rest of it.
I got as far as the Ebert review and the trailer.
All the stuff about “empowerment” and claiming if you weren’t into sexuality as depicted in the film you were anti-sex was extremely off-putting.
One of my Pham does unofficial ‘cool movie’ reviews; when he said it was a complete waste of time and film, I was over any curiosity I’d had. ’
Especially when he mentioned the lobotomy at the end. I already think the “it was all a dream/hallucination” endings are a lazy cop-out, anyway; it only worked in the Wizard of Oz and Newhart (debatably.) But to end it like that, after all the bullshit they put the protagonist through?
Like, why even bother?
I watch movies as form of escapism, to feel better; not worse.
As if Roger Ebert is anywhere near some sort of ‘authority’ on human sexuality; mofo, please.
Oh no no no, that wasn’t Ebert.
That was the lead actors saying that. I remember an interview with Jena Malone in particular. Seemed to be a promotional talking point.
Ugh; even worse.
Racism more than sexism, but what is this “not of Hispanic origin” bullshit? Seriously, Foxboro, WTF?
That was the plot twist. She wasn’t the protagonist on her own story, she was a supporting character in someone else’s (the person who actually escaped).
It was more of an interesting plot twist than I was expecting, but not worth sitting through the rest of the film for.
The census collects data on race and ethnicity. For ethnicity, it’s a binary choice: hispanic or non-hispanic. For race, there are several choices, and technically, each of those could be “hispanic.”
the wording may be statistical cruft. It’s useful for people to know where spanish is spoken in the home though.
While I’m glad that at least someone escapes, that movie sounds like it would just piss me off.