I saw Crying Game YEARS after everyone else did, on cable or something.
Well, ditto. As far as I can tell, I saw Rea for the first time in V for Vendetta, in the spring of 2006, and about three months later I rented The Crying Game and loved it, having no idea of the plot and my pop-culture blindness for once working in my favor as I had managed to miss all the associated transphobia as a result. I knew Jaye Davidson already from Stargate (1994).
I was still super busy with college, when I didn't see a lot of movies at all (other than what the film society screened).
I started paying attention to movies in college, though they were still more of a social activity than an art form I pursued on my own time, but it really accelerated in grad school and then when grad school collapsed I suddenly had a lot of time for nothing but movies. So I guess that's one thing chronic pain and the total derailment of my academic career have done for me.
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Well, ditto. As far as I can tell, I saw Rea for the first time in V for Vendetta, in the spring of 2006, and about three months later I rented The Crying Game and loved it, having no idea of the plot and my pop-culture blindness for once working in my favor as I had managed to miss all the associated transphobia as a result. I knew Jaye Davidson already from Stargate (1994).
I was still super busy with college, when I didn't see a lot of movies at all (other than what the film society screened).
I started paying attention to movies in college, though they were still more of a social activity than an art form I pursued on my own time, but it really accelerated in grad school and then when grad school collapsed I suddenly had a lot of time for nothing but movies. So I guess that's one thing chronic pain and the total derailment of my academic career have done for me.