Your initial paragraph is rousing in all the right ways--I'm going to lift a quote to tweet this entry!
I'd be honored!
And the movie itself sounds *excellent*. It's available on Netflix DVD, so I'm requesting it.
Oh, cool! I didn't even think to check. I hope you enjoy it. I wanted to see it because I knew it was a female-centric noir and because I enjoy Fritz Lang, but I was not expecting it to be as interesting or as supportive it turned out to be—see reply to rydra_wong. These movies keep existing. I am so glad they do.
--that line made me laugh. Off topic from the main review but: funny.
There are some wonderful lines in this movie, both funny and not. Casey in one of his early columns refers to "the girl who done the whodunit," which is just pulp snappiness at its best.
--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.
Probably they don't. The trouble is that it may be unpalatable, but I also think it's necessary. We've gotten the idea that monsters can look like anyone, which is at least a step up from assuming shoot-on-sight recognizability, but we still don't have a lot of narrative reinforcement for the fact that ordinary people can hurt one another quite effectively, no especial villainy required.
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I'd be honored!
And the movie itself sounds *excellent*. It's available on Netflix DVD, so I'm requesting it.
Oh, cool! I didn't even think to check. I hope you enjoy it. I wanted to see it because I knew it was a female-centric noir and because I enjoy Fritz Lang, but I was not expecting it to be as interesting or as supportive it turned out to be—see reply to
--that line made me laugh. Off topic from the main review but: funny.
There are some wonderful lines in this movie, both funny and not. Casey in one of his early columns refers to "the girl who done the whodunit," which is just pulp snappiness at its best.
--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.
Probably they don't. The trouble is that it may be unpalatable, but I also think it's necessary. We've gotten the idea that monsters can look like anyone, which is at least a step up from assuming shoot-on-sight recognizability, but we still don't have a lot of narrative reinforcement for the fact that ordinary people can hurt one another quite effectively, no especial villainy required.