|::| Tuesday, October 29, 2002
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A friend: "I can't even watch a movie anymore. I find myself watching thinking about all the details about how this stuff is done, and I can't enjoy it. I just can't get that release that I used to."
- |::| 11:01:11 PM
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I missed seeing the second Tim Burton Batman movie in the theaters. (Actually, I've never seen any of them in a theater, but that's beside the point...) I ran into a friend, who admitted that he had seen it, sometime after the theatrical run had finished. I asked him how it was.
"It's not bad, for a bondage fetish movie," he replied. Which was true enough...
I just got done watching the season opener of Fox's 24. I hadn't watched any of the first season. I suppose I thought I didn't have anything much better to do, tonight. I found myself examining the mechanics of the production:
- Tight shot framing on all person to person interactions -- but still: Women seen from a man's vantage always appear closer than men from a woman's vantage. Is it to appeal to the male libido and comfort the female fear of male violence? That would be very (read: "too") caluclating. I can only speak from a male perspective, and note that there was an undercurrent of eroticism in all the male-female interactions.
- In the old family photo, Jack strokes his daughter's face -- not that of his late wife.
- Disfunctional "stocking game" relationship between daughter and father, daughter and employer.
This show is really interesting. But I'm afraid it might be a bit too disturbing for regular viewing. What on earth are these people reaching for? And do they ever admit to themselves that they're doing it? Is it even remotely possible that they don't know? There hasn't been anything so blatantly BDSM on TV since Twin Peaks.
