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Whereas I saw him generous and responsive to a fault. Look how he...

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clarkjohnsen

In Reply to: RE: This is the film posted by sjb on April 15, 2008 at 12:18:22

...hung in there when she was playing Baby Doll. "Do you like my legs?" "Do you like my nose?" "Do you like my elbows?" "Do you like my nails?" AAAARRRRGH!

High maintenance. I rest my case.

clark

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I saw her as messing with him in that regard but doing so consciously as a way to try and point - sjb 09:17:04 04/16/08 (3)
out that he wasn't really seeing HER.

So she was mocking what he does see about her and turning it back on him.

"You can safely assume you have created God in your own image when he hates all the same people you do."
- Trouble is, as afilado so sagely pointed out in his message below... - clarkjohnsen 09:45:34 04/16/08 (2)
  ...you can't trust what any of the characters are saying or doing, as the director's matrix of meaning is superimposed on every movement and moment. "Civility is deliberately, intelligently perverted before our eyes, by the story, the players and the director, yet we go along with it all because the perverse truths revealed are so familiar."
  
  clark
  - Be that as it may (and it was certainly a very good and well said observation) - sjb 17:58:47 04/16/08 (1)
    it doesn't stop you from feeling that she was petulant and high maintenance and it doesn't stop me from believing that she was simply trying to teach him a lesson about not objectifying her (which could be a double lesson... to the fictional husband and the real life producer who wanted her in the film and wanted her to show some skin).
    
    "You can safely assume you have created God in your own image when he hates all the same people you do."
    - All that, and more, I'm sure. nt - clarkjohnsen 10:08:49 04/17/08 (0)
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