Well, it's not supposed to be *not* disturbing
I'm assuming you experienced a sort of disturbing where you felt empathy. I did not--I found her tiresome and irritating. And also disturbing. Her grief was not evocative for me in the least.
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'Shells'
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§ ita § - Mar 06, 2013 11:52:40 am PST #23636 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
JZ - Mar 06, 2013 12:02:19 pm PST #23637 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Yeah, I... can't help with that. Sometimes an actor or character just rubs someone the wrong way and that's that.
Kate P. - Mar 06, 2013 12:03:54 pm PST #23638 of 30000
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Oh, it's been way too long since I've seen TMD. I've had it in my Netflix queue for ages, but they list it as unavailable on DVD. ???
beekaytee - Mar 06, 2013 12:04:39 pm PST #23639 of 30000
Compassionately intolerant
I found her tiresome and irritating. And also disturbing. Her grief was not evocative for me in the least.
This was actually the whole point to me.
She WAS irritating, selfish and unhealthy.
She had a normal grief experience. Not a stylized, theatrical grief...but the real thing.
The movie came after the second most significant grief experience of my life and I saw myself in Nina. A normal person experiencing an untidy loss.
Plus, I fell in love with Alan Rickman instantly. That ardor has never cooled.
Dana - Mar 06, 2013 12:09:46 pm PST #23640 of 30000
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
God, I love that movie.
beekaytee - Mar 06, 2013 12:13:50 pm PST #23641 of 30000
Compassionately intolerant
Well, look at THAT! I just discovered that my second favorite Alan Rickman film is on netflix streaming...along with my 5th favorite Alan Rickman film. HatchattaCHA!
Blow Dry here I come.
§ ita § - Mar 06, 2013 12:14:51 pm PST #23642 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Normal isn't a good enough reason for me to find a story interesting. It's completely irrelevant, in fact. By about halfway in, I realised I did not care what she experienced or what happened to her. I stuck around because so many people like the movie, but she, they didn't come back from that--it was two people uninteresting to me doing uninteresting things in ways that didn't interest me.
Connie Neil - Mar 06, 2013 12:52:47 pm PST #23643 of 30000
brillig
Normal isn't a good enough reason for me to find a story interesting.
That's why I don't much like most family drama. True to life family troubles--I can get that in my living room.
Beverly - Mar 06, 2013 12:59:27 pm PST #23644 of 30000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Blow Dry
OMG, Bill Nighy! Natasha Richardson (RIP), Rachel Griffiths! Glorious tattoos! Blow Dry always had a Strictly Ballroom feeling to it, for me, though it's a vastly different tale.
beekaytee - Mar 06, 2013 1:07:52 pm PST #23645 of 30000
Compassionately intolerant
The scissors on the bottom of his foot!!
This is what I am saying.
Plus, I love the accents (excepting Josh Hartnell, of course).
It's massive cheese and totally predictable, but I love it.
Bill Nighy is delish.
And yes, the same feeling as Strictly Ballroom, another of my faves.