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theholyinnocentSo this morning I see an ad on the telly for a new film called Head in the Clouds. I love period movies (particularly WW II films) as much as the next Merchant-Ivory whore, but...like many trailers/previews these days, you learn so much about a film in one minute or less that, for bad movies at least, the old rotted seams of predictability are painfully visible.
This film seems to be about young, beautiful people in Europe before and during WW II: Repressed, Honorable English Guy (is there any other kind? Oh, right: Hugh Grant, Benny Hill...), Spirited Blonde (Charlize Theron), and Exotic (i.e., not American/Anglo) Chick (Penelope Cruz). And oh my, look at this, how very, very shocking: They all seem to be sleeping with each other! Quelle surprise! Never would have guessed it! Not in a million years! But guess what too: Repressed English Guy lurves Blonde Chick, and she lurves him too, even though she is boinking/has boinked Exotic Chick. We know this because Penelope Cruz croons: He looooooooooooves yewwwwwwww to Charlize. (I'm willing to bet that Exotic Chick dies tragically at some point.)
So again we are given a trite little movie that tantalizes us with threesomes, only to be informed that "true love" exists only in heterosexual (and mostly monogamous) pairings. It's reminding me painfully of Henry and June--a big fat lesbo tease and a film that, when it came out, everyone except me seemed to love (it didn't help that the director saw fit to rip off Bertolucci's The Conformist for his big lesbo tease scene).
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More media whoreness: Last night 60 Minutes was supposed to air an interview with a dude who presumably arranged it so that Our "President" could get out of doing a tour of duty in Vietnam. But strangely enough, that interview was not aired by many CBS affiliates.
Gee. I wonder why.
Oh, and The Man Who Was Afraid to Go to Vietnam (i.e., NOT John Kerry) is now responsible for 1000 dead American soldiers and 11,000 dead Iraqi civilians. And gee, I wonder why we never see that dead civilian total reported constantly on the evening news, as we do the number of Americans. It must mean that American lives are more valuable than "foreign" lives, right?
This film seems to be about young, beautiful people in Europe before and during WW II: Repressed, Honorable English Guy (is there any other kind? Oh, right: Hugh Grant, Benny Hill...), Spirited Blonde (Charlize Theron), and Exotic (i.e., not American/Anglo) Chick (Penelope Cruz). And oh my, look at this, how very, very shocking: They all seem to be sleeping with each other! Quelle surprise! Never would have guessed it! Not in a million years! But guess what too: Repressed English Guy lurves Blonde Chick, and she lurves him too, even though she is boinking/has boinked Exotic Chick. We know this because Penelope Cruz croons: He looooooooooooves yewwwwwwww to Charlize. (I'm willing to bet that Exotic Chick dies tragically at some point.)
So again we are given a trite little movie that tantalizes us with threesomes, only to be informed that "true love" exists only in heterosexual (and mostly monogamous) pairings. It's reminding me painfully of Henry and June--a big fat lesbo tease and a film that, when it came out, everyone except me seemed to love (it didn't help that the director saw fit to rip off Bertolucci's The Conformist for his big lesbo tease scene).
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More media whoreness: Last night 60 Minutes was supposed to air an interview with a dude who presumably arranged it so that Our "President" could get out of doing a tour of duty in Vietnam. But strangely enough, that interview was not aired by many CBS affiliates.
Gee. I wonder why.
Oh, and The Man Who Was Afraid to Go to Vietnam (i.e., NOT John Kerry) is now responsible for 1000 dead American soldiers and 11,000 dead Iraqi civilians. And gee, I wonder why we never see that dead civilian total reported constantly on the evening news, as we do the number of Americans. It must mean that American lives are more valuable than "foreign" lives, right?
