In The Cut
remember back when "the crying game" came out and everybody was abuzz about the surprise ending? well i first saw it some years after its release, and what was more surprising to me at the time was that the "ending" occurs midway through the movie. which is to say that while it was generally received as a mystery-thriller, all that stuff was really secondary to its smart and compelling exploration of identity politics."in the cut" is like the opposite of that. i mean, who's idea was it to let andrea dworkin re-write sea of love? which is not to say that it failed, exactly. but its earnest attempt at being a gritty thriller is its own undoing; what is potentially interesting about the movie has nothing to do with its stale whodunit plot twists or its broad address of sexual politics, but with the strange psychologies of the meg ryan and mark ruffallo characters and, very simply, the relationship between them. damn, jane, there is enough fodder for "things i might say about sexual politics" right there; you don't have to resort to using stalkers and strip bars and scary black guys and all that nasty decapitation.
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Seton Seeley rocks!
By Anonymous, at 12:54 PM
You bet I do.
By Seton Seeley, at 1:12 PM
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