tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190627334056603500.post2872436263341663453..comments2023-10-19T05:36:56.844-07:00Comments on "Let's Not Talk About Movies": Black SwanUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190627334056603500.post-22004134940483991242010-12-22T15:48:41.596-08:002010-12-22T15:48:41.596-08:00grt, we're gonna have to agree to disagree on ...grt, we're gonna have to agree to disagree on this...and misogynistic?? You'll have to explain that one. I see that as a bit of a stretch, even if you adamantly despise the movie (It IS, after all, about an extreme case...right??) Think you need to get a smaller brush.<br /><br />Mike, there IS a Looney Tunes cartoon to explain just about everything...except Congress. ANd <i>Last Year at Marienbad</i>? Would that be "Duck Amuck?""Yojimbo_5"https://www.blogger.com/profile/12791996320278381516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190627334056603500.post-27088750800495672432010-12-22T15:37:30.942-08:002010-12-22T15:37:30.942-08:00I think there is a Looney Tunes cartoon to explain...I think there is a Looney Tunes cartoon to explain everything. I have one that I use to explain Last Year at Marienbad all of the time. Great review!The Taxi Driverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04352371911592068643noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190627334056603500.post-38854696505884838882010-12-22T12:43:13.913-08:002010-12-22T12:43:13.913-08:00Yojimbo: But in the case of "Black Swan"...Yojimbo: But in the case of "Black Swan" it's not just sweat, it's torture. I understand the concept of you have to become what you are portraying (ask me about a show where we had to cross the 9th mountain to the 10th kingdom sometime ... no more productions involving soviet tanks!)<br /><br />"Black Swan" was the most misogynistic film I've seen in a long time. I would have walked because I don't need to see brutality to tell a good or even effective story. I hate that this is a movie that will pull in young dance students. Really, this is what you've got? Dance is torture?grtgigshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16981095141568539519noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190627334056603500.post-77318583974752361272010-12-22T08:21:37.786-08:002010-12-22T08:21:37.786-08:00@ Yojimbo... I just meant that in some of the late...@ Yojimbo... I just meant that in some of the later sequences when Nina is really becoming mentally unhinged, I started harkening back to similar moments in REQUIEM FOR A DREAM.<br /><br />Just me?Ryan McNeilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00440134802928893661noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190627334056603500.post-12619659551784229912010-12-22T08:05:17.916-08:002010-12-22T08:05:17.916-08:00Tetch...I won't ask what you mean by "Vis...Tetch...I won't ask what you mean by "Visions of <i>Requiem for a Dream</i>"Yojimbo_5"https://www.blogger.com/profile/12791996320278381516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190627334056603500.post-6049529342358890912010-12-22T08:03:38.109-08:002010-12-22T08:03:38.109-08:00Thanks for commenting, grtgigs. One walks into th...Thanks for commenting, grtgigs. One walks into these things (hopefully) with few expectations. I suspect you wanted to see more dancing. That's okay. I gnash my gears a bit at your "old trope" comment, because you do not "suffer for your art" in all spheres...except for ballet...and maybe sports...any kind of dance or expression of self involving "the self." And that's an important distinction. In ballet...you DO. It looks pretty from a distance. On-stage, it's sweat and strain and creaking toes, and quivering muscles. <br /><br />I'm glad you thought it was well-acted and executed. But if so, why would you possibly want to walk out half-way through? Frankly, anyone who walks out of <i>Black Swan</i> is a wuss."Yojimbo_5"https://www.blogger.com/profile/12791996320278381516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190627334056603500.post-67219664798385724782010-12-21T12:32:44.017-08:002010-12-21T12:32:44.017-08:00This was such a creepy movie! Almost every charac...This was such a creepy movie! Almost every character tortures and is tortured. (You have to suffer for your art? Ugh! Can't we get beyond that old trope?) <br /><br />If I hadn't been there with someone, I would have joined the others who walked half way through. <br /><br />Not saying it wasn't well acted and executed. Shot weirdly close for a movie whose metaphor is "Swan Lake" (though I understand that this contributes to the feeling of paranoia by the lead character), but then why is ballet your story?<br /><br />If you want to see a horror movie, great. If you want to see a ballet movie, pass ... big time!grtgigshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16981095141568539519noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190627334056603500.post-73543916801438626582010-12-19T21:04:18.780-08:002010-12-19T21:04:18.780-08:00Am I the only one who started getting visions of R...Am I the only one who started getting visions of REQUIEM FOR A DREAM while watching this movie?Ryan McNeilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00440134802928893661noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190627334056603500.post-90002710546153745462010-12-19T10:54:54.675-08:002010-12-19T10:54:54.675-08:00No. Not weird. Subjective (in all manners) but n...No. Not weird. Subjective (in all manners) but not weird.<br /><br />The weird thing about Hershey's Mom is you have to admit she's doing the best she can (not unlike Nina)...now whether that's the RIGHT thing...both Portman and Hershey's performances are not the least bit vain, which is entirely appropriate, and counter to their characters...!!<br /><br /><br />One bit I wanted to put into the review, but as I used it before (for <i>Adaptation</i>.), decided not to, was that <i>Black Swan</i> reminded me of the Looney Tunes cartoon where Daffy Duck, desperate to achieve stardom, auditions for a booking agent by consuming all sorts of volatile materials and then swallowing a lit match *BOOM* The agent is ecstatic: "That's the most amazing thing I've ever seen!!" And the ghost of Daffy (once the smoke clears) says "Yeah, yeah...but I can only do it ONCE!""Yojimbo_5"https://www.blogger.com/profile/12791996320278381516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190627334056603500.post-67340332766500050962010-12-18T16:56:16.026-08:002010-12-18T16:56:16.026-08:00I just saw this, and it was beautiful. Except the...I just saw this, and it was beautiful. Except the camerawork reminded me of a toss between Enter the Void (all the back-of-the-head footchases) and David Lynch (Inland Empire, anyway). Is that weird?<br /><br />Barbara Hershey should get an Oscar. She was so subtley wicked.Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08085105568601878075noreply@blogger.com