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Originally posted by zakoh02
Back from the dead and just checking things out here on a recommendation...
I actually thought the movie was painful to watch. What did you like about it?
Zak
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Let's see . . . I enjoyed the performances, the story, the writing, the cinematography.
It was a more stylized, updated Whit Stilman-type movie.
For those who wish to see it completely unspoiled, I will provide some spoiler space . . .
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It's not a happy, feel-good movie, but it's incredibly honest and real.
In the opening scene where we meet him and listen to him argue to people in a restaurant about men's sexual obsolence, we (the audience) are eavesdropping, according to the camerawork. The shots reinforce that the movie is about Roger and his world view and disconnected from his connection to us, i.e., he cares not what anyone thinks, especially a dispassionate audience.
In the movie, we follow maybe 30 hours in the charater's life as he indoctrinates his young nephew into his incredibly cyncial view of how to pick up women (and by extension, he reveals his views of women, in general).
He is impossible to ignore, even when you'd like to beat him about the head and neck. As you watch him slide downward, the feeling of horror is palpable. During the scene at the climax of the film, it in incredibly uncomfortable to watch and you keep hoping that something, some glimmer of humanity will kick in and stop the "fail safe."
To me, that is the definition of a really good film. It set me inside his reality so convincingly that I recognized conversatons my friends and I have had and I laughed and I squirmed.
Oh, and Paigow, the line was that she likes it "in the pooper." Much funnier, much more real.
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