No movies have happened this week. The baby we own is learning how to sleep in his crib and some days he prefers to wake up at 3 a.m. and so I have to go to sleep by 10 and so in lieu of watching the three movies I have from Netflix (Movern Caller–lady directore, about a girl that publishes a book after her boyf’s suicide, The Illusionist (the Franch cartoon) and the Henri Cartier-Bresson doc that is going to have to start paying rent here soon it’s stayed so long) I have been watching DAMAGES on the Netflix Instant. This is not a TV blog, so I will not get into it but for only to tell you that Glenn Closes character is written as basically a “feminist” (airquotes) extension of the role she played in Fatal Attraction, and as you may remember from Susan Faludi’s Backlash she was infamously slapped by the director so that she would act mo’ crazy. Well, I doubt anyone is slapping G-Clo these days, cos her “bitch” is corpo x Godzilla +powersuitting + second-tier cable network show writing. She gets to say lines like “When you take power away from a man, some has to pay–someone always pays.” Also, Ted Danson is on it as a billionaire and when they want him to be “contemplative” they show him cleaning his pool while smoking a cigar and staring into the horizon. It’s super bad-good.
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Maybe this blog should also be about TV programmes?
I mean you still SAW IT why not blog about it!?
“Movern Caller–lady directore, about a girl that publishes a book after her boyf’s suicide…”
Uh. Yeeeaah. That’s. I mean I liked the movie a lot, but there’s a certain bit early in the movie that will forever prevent me from thinking of the movie as one about a girl who *writes a book* after her boyf kills himself. I mean. I didn’t even remember the book until you said this, the Other Thing is so in-the-way-of-that.
Yes, I was just going with the Netflix descrip of the movie. I am halfway through and it is really not about the book in anyway.
It’s weird because just a week ago I randomly picked up Movern Callah, the book, because the old man has it for some reason. I didn’t enjoy it, so I put it down. but I never got to the part the back of the book was talking about when it said “and what she does after his suicide is repellent and shocking.” The first 30 pages are just her wandering around puking and fucking dudes and smoking. WHAT IS THE REPELLENT THING?! I guess I will wikipedia it.
I agree we should also talk about tv shows on here. I’m gonna write a zombie essay after I watch The Walking Dead tomorrow