Re: I recently added HBO...


"poisoned rose" <selfindulgenceweek@xxxxxxx> wrote

Jeez, I had a feeling you'd question this. Your childlike-fantasy
orientation again.

[spoiler warning?]



The film had a lot less "hallucinatory" content than I expected, so it
was frustrating on those terms. I saw the early scene where the toad
creature imploded into that huge blob of orange goo and thought "OK,
here we go!!" But there wasn't much more of that. And the reality-based
story wasn't all that gripping on its own either. Not far out enough to
be a good head film...not enough character exploration to be a good film
about reality-based humanity. It was a pretty good film...it just didn't
blow me away.

Also: The creature with the eyes in his hands was an imaginative
monster, but that scene was undercut because I found it totally
implausible that the kid would have eaten the grapes, amidst all the
don't-eat warnings AND the sight of that frightening creature sitting
frozen at the table.

I also thought it was one of those "shortcut" political tales, where
there's a basis in history but the conflict is so quickly reduced to "us
= good, them = bad" that all other details become incidental. We don't
really "need" to know the situation involves the Spanish Civil
War...it's just a convenient setting for a "good vs. bad" story.

PS I haven't seen The Devil's Backbone.



Thanks. You can blame my "orientation" on Jung and Bettelheim.

www.Shemakhan.com


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