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I'm assuming you've seen it
Yes.
It's really not very good at all. Paul-O, your suggestion of it "exploring uncharted human emotion" doesn't really fly because for everything we see depicted this film is as detached and as unemotional as one could get. It feels nothing, depicts nothing and as such I felt nothing. It's also way too "glossy" for the scattershot vision LvT was going for. It fits right in with the "best" of the torture porn garbage we've been seeing for years now. It's exploitation simply for the sake of having asbolutely nothing to say.
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Yes.
It's really not very good at all. Paul-O, your suggestion of it "exploring uncharted human emotion" doesn't really fly because for everything we see depicted this film is as detached and as unemotional as one could get. It feels nothing, depicts nothing and as such I felt nothing. It's also way too "glossy" for the scattershot vision LvT was going for. It fits right in with the "best" of the torture porn garbage we've been seeing for years now. It's exploitation simply for the sake of having asbolutely nothing to say.
What of two people exploring the lowest depths of despair?
I think of Last Tango in Paris where a man engages in obsessive sex as a way to postpone his eventual suicide.
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What of two people exploring the lowest depths of despair?
I think of Last Tango in Paris where a man engages in obsessive sex as a way to postpone his eventual suicide.
There is no despair. It carries all the emotional weight of an overdone music video.
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I'd probably end up jacking eight or nine times a day, up from my usual 5 or 6. I will suck a cock. You can't neglect the balls Putting someone's cock in your mouth isn't intimate?
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There is no despair. It carries all the emotional weight of an overdone music video.
Last Tango In Paris might be one of the most desperately overrated movies ever.
It's the creepy fantasies of a 50 year old who wishes he could butt fuck a hot young blond without having to have a real relationship with her.
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I think we should look at what the film is....
It's beautifully photographed.
It's well acted.
It has the emotional feel of a typical art film.
It has an intellectual bent where it attempts to explore the effectiveness of psychological therapy.
It is hard to pin down and yet it might be easy to simplify.
It is open to interpretation.
LVT is certainly fucking with our heads.
It is extremely shocking at times in the context of an extremely dry Bergmanesque atmosphere. But if anyone saw Cries and Whispers, Bergman has dealt with genital mutilation as well.
Overall, I think it's one of the better pictures of the year. It is certainly better than Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
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