Your initial paragraph is rousing in all the right ways--I'm going to lift a quote to tweet this entry!
And the movie itself sounds *excellent*. It's available on Netflix DVD, so I'm requesting it.
"The last time they put my picture in the paper, I had to get bitten by a dog!" --that line made me laugh. Off topic from the main review but: funny.
but it would have been easy enough to make him a serial rapist, a sex maniac, dramatically dangerous in a way that reassures #notallmen of 1953, and instead he's just a guy. --I wish there'd be more of this, generally, but I guess audiences (and this goes for women as well as men) don't like to contemplate the fact that they themselves could be the antagonist in a story.
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And the movie itself sounds *excellent*. It's available on Netflix DVD, so I'm requesting it.
"The last time they put my picture in the paper, I had to get bitten by a dog!" --that line made me laugh. Off topic from the main review but: funny.
but it would have been easy enough to make him a serial rapist, a sex maniac, dramatically dangerous in a way that reassures #notallmen of 1953, and instead he's just a guy. --I wish there'd be more of this, generally, but I guess audiences (and this goes for women as well as men) don't like to contemplate the fact that they themselves could be the antagonist in a story.