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with mack in CT!

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Devastatingly romantic

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Worst movie I've ever seen. Hands down.

This review may contain spoilers.

I'm certainly a late-comer to Gone Girl. When it first came out it did not appeal to me- it simply appeared to be a film about a couple in a classic whodunnit situation. But as I watched it, my opinions on Nick and Amy shifted, dramatically and almost constantly. The idea of victimization–who hurt who–became almost indecipherable as the movie progressed. First I was concerned about Amy and confused about Nick's seemingly emotionless response to her disappearance. Then I came to loathe Nick as I discovered his almost laughable infidelity, and I respected Amy for taking the independent feminist idea to a new level. Quickly that respect turned to confusion and horror as Amy reveals herself to be a psychopathic wife, an off the scale version of "the New York City cool girl". Still, despite my disillusion with both of the central characters, I continually noticed that the gender warfare was both overtly and covertly played out throughout the sex, blood, and wine bottles. Every piece of property the Dunnes own is under Amy's name, a fact deemed "pathetic" by a male police officer, who sees this as a sign of Nick's weakness. Amy continues to lie and deceive (shocker), and when she runs into the arms of her next victim, the audience is lulled into a false sense of "Oh, he's the good guy". No sooner has this sense of clear morality entered the mind of the viewer than it vanishes into thin air, much like a blonde we all know and love (to hate). Neil Patrick Harris quickly turns into yet another man who wants to manipulate and control Amy, turning her into a cool girl that is blonde, hairless, allergic to junk food, and who only owns lingerie. Does this warrant her slicing his throat open mid fuck? If this was a Bronte novel, I'd say yes.

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While Locke is a seemingly simple story with one setting and (essentially) one character, it is anything but. Trapped in the car with Locke, the audience isn't given an inch to breathe, the tension in the car rising as Locke gets closer and closer to his destination and farther and farther from his cushy life. There's no cut to another character or place, meaning that everything is from Locke's perspective in a way that's both claustrophobic and captivating. The silences between calls are frequent and are only punctuated by the ing cars or by Locke's personal monologue with his late father, unless the music kicks in so subtly that I didn't even notice when it began. When the phone does ring, it reinforces the tension and kept me engaged in the story, an impressive feat given that I just watched an hour and a half of a man driving.

This film is a story about two women, repressed in different ways but both bound by the desire and power of men. To free themselves of that, they'll do anything. The way that men are portrayed–slimy, perverted, "mesmerized" by women and their misunderstood sensuality–makes the well-acted female roles glow that much brighter in an often dim and grey setting. Literally broken into three acts, The Handmaiden is an enthralling film from the get go, although I would argue that Part One, told from the handmaiden's perspective, is the weakest by far. Throughout the film, actions and events can sometimes seem disted and always seem sudden, yet the plot never seems fractured. Park doesn't give you an inch to try and decipher what's going on; you are strapped into his pace and just when things feel like they could swing into a lull of understanding, one part ends and another begins. What at first seems like a mere period drama quickly unfolds into a dark and powerful feministic plot as the tale is told from the other woman's perspective. I didn't know much about the film going into it, but I'm glad I saw it. It's so full of... well... everything, that it's difficult to get your mind to slow afterwards.

I sure hope not

• Mean Girls

  "i'm not like a regular mom. i'm a cool mom." that should tell you everything you need to know.

• The Shining

  ive and continues to coexist with a husband that abuses her son, to the point that he looses his mind and tries to kill them. yeah. also lets herself be dragged to live in an empty hotel in the middle of nowhere. yeah.

• Cinderella

  the OG evil stepmother.

• Black Swan

  possibly the strangest case of a mother who doesn't want her little baby to grow up... at all. a confirmed parent trying to live out her ideal life through her child.

• Flyin' Ryan

  a mother who drops her kid off in the middle of an unknown town and promptly heads to a (probably) 12 hour nursing shift? how rude! if you can somehow forgive her for that, let's not forget that she has no idea her son is a socially incapable robot who gets mercilessly bullied.

• Inception

  kills herself. talk about the ultimate abandonment. sure, she thought she was leaving her kids to get back to her kids, but still.

• The Phantom of the Opera

  alright, technically there is no phantom's mom in this movie. but what kind of mother abandons her child just because he's ugly? without the phantom's mom there would be no tragically alluring psychopath, just an guy who maybe didn't get out much. i mean i know designer babies weren't a thing in the 1800s, but come on.

• Suite Française

  absolutely hates her daughter in law for no reason at all- always has, always will. treats her like dirt.

• About a Boy

  i have a lot of issues with this movie, mainly because it trivializes suicide and depression, but looking beyond that, the mother is ridiculously unaware of who her son is and what his needs are. she's absolutely wacky and detached from her son's reality.

• The Diary of a Teenage Girl

  parties so much she doesn't notice her boyfriend is sexually abusing her daughter.

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