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beautiful women DO exist in real life

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dave c

In Reply to: RE: Scaphandre et le papillon, Le (2007) posted by Jon L on March 03, 2008 at 11:05:16

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.

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And his helplessness. - sjb 12:40:22 03/03/08 (4)
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."
- Were they as ugly as sin the film still would be mediocre, at best. I - tinear 14:46:53 03/03/08 (3)
  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.
  - Tin, I'm with you on... - Harmonia 14:02:38 03/04/08 (0)
    ...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.
  - "films, several of them, depicting the genocide against the Native-Americans?" - dave c 12:46:24 03/04/08 (0)
    I think that was the 1930-60s.
  - they were beautiful, as was the film. nt - Duilawyer 17:22:22 03/03/08 (0)
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