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Another film that Hollywood never could/would have made. Sometimes real life stories *are* more surreal than fiction..
Just one point of protest, though. The speech therapist and physical therapist are way too good looking for reality..
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Tin don't like it but a bunch of us have already praised it.
As I said below in response to someone who found it tedious and boring:
"I thought it was possibly the best film I saw in 2007. I was not bored for a single second. Au contraire, I found it insightful, sensual, humane and rivetting."
As for the actresses - I say PFFFTTT!!
Plenty women are beautiful IRL. The point is, in his heightened, isolated state of awareness, that's how Dauby "saw" his caregivers. One assumes the twice married editor of French Elle was already quite sensitive to female pulchritude.
For my thoughts on this film please see my comments below on another thread.
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Complicit Constapo Talibangelical since MMIII
Just a guess mind.
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I am amazed how some inmates are going on about how beautiful these two women are to the point of saying it spoils the film.
I do not remember hearing a similar argument about probably 90% of American films.
I did think it might be that, as the protagonist of the film is a bit of a womaniser, it might have been used as a way of showing his view of women. THe camera work at the start of the film, following his eye movement, does wander over the womens' breasts etc.
The fact that he saw them as beautiful and was trapped in a body/situation that made it impossible to act on being drawn to them was a big part of communicating his imprisonment.
As I posted to tin... here's one of the therapist's (or the woman taking dictation)... she looks pretty darn good to me...
"You can safely assume you have created God in your own image when he hates all the same people you do."
also understand another terrific Holocaust film is coming out, "The Counterfeiters."
It's an apocryphal story of how much better Jewish concentration camp "helpers" fared and how they felt because of it.
Meanwhile, during this interminable onslaught of Israeli propaganda masquerading as historical self-pity, the slaughter and imprisonment of Palestinians continues.
Imagine yearly films, several of them, depicting the genocide against the Native-Americans? Or the several hundred years of hideousness toward African-Americans?
Holocaust: terrible, yes. Of course.
Worse than any other genocide? No. Worse than the many more millions killed by Stalin or Mao? No.
It's rather remarkable Israelis cannot empathize, AT ALL, with people being displaced, imprisoned, and de-humanized.
...Israeli agression against Palestinians - shameful. Those who support it are, and will continue, to reap the whirlwind.
But as you know I disagree strongly with you about Diving Bell/Butterfly.
BTW, I think it quite reasonable for the Holocaust to be the subject of Austrian filmmakers - in fact, the director of The Counterfeiters is not Jewish.
I think that was the 1930-60s.
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