Daisy Jane, LOVE your tagline. I haven't listened to that CD in far too long.
I love the celebration of women's beauty even while we're being portrayed as a man's idea of a woman.
Ah, but see, what I found fascinating was that man's idea of womanly beauty wasn't really beauty at all, but artifice; in the end, real beauty -- and I think we see it in the Desdemona death scene -- is never pretty and soft and safe the way we think it is. *Real* beauty is terrifying to behold, and I think that scene showed it.
I think it's the same thing with whatever art challenges what we traditionally think of as beautiful. It's the difference between a romance (in the bad sense) novel and erotica. Dancing around something, having a pantomime of it, and actually seeing and feeling it.
Did you not think she was actually dead?
ETA: I tried to have the "Now a man might not appreciate the guidence of a good woman who truly loves him. He might slip into the dirty misdoings of his daily dirty existance..." but the whole thing wouldn't fit.
Did you not think she was actually dead?
No. I mean, I don't think that it was playacting, either -- but I just assumed that the movie wouldn't actually go so far as to kill her.
Also, since I'm the only one left posting? Why must Newport News tempt me with swim suits that might actually look good on me when I dont have the money to spend? [link] [link]
I did. I thought his jealousy over her actually being a woman would do him in. And that's what Othello is all about, jealousy without reason.
Bebes. Must go to bed. However, yay Perkins and Kristin vacation, jealous as I am. Yay, Steph and one of my favorite movies, and I hope to talk about it more. Maybe tomorrow night?
I've had a bottle of wine and am out of smokes= bedtime.
Sean, we're Tivo-ing it if you want a copy later.
Nah, we taped it off cable. Thanks, though.
So, I'd probably talk about this in Natter, but Oscar ate Natter, so I'm talking about it here.
Tonight, I finally watched my first episode of the Boondocks. Not tonight's ep -- last week's, with Samuel L. Jackson. I had it taped. I'm going to catch this week's on the Thursday repeat. Right now we're watching Oscar stuff before bed.
The Entertainment Weekly article on Boondocks said the show wasn't as funny as the strip. He must have watched a different episode than I did, because I was cackling like a madman. Sure, it's not necessarily as punchy or concise as the strip, but that's three panels. It's always going to be much more focused. But I thought the show itself was damned brilliant.
