tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4097599682335202574.post1816058221271006591..comments2023-03-02T14:02:13.957+01:00Comments on The Single-Minded Movie Blog: Bottom 25 of 2013David Bjerrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08187913093957441894noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4097599682335202574.post-36904496473246141752014-06-24T09:27:46.472+02:002014-06-24T09:27:46.472+02:00Thanks!
Come now, I didn't refer to her (Lana...Thanks!<br /><br />Come now, I didn't refer to her (Lana) as the one dressing up as the opposite sex, but the actors (male and female) in the movie. I'm not sniggering, I'm a bit annoyed, because I think it feels forced. Especially Hugo Weaving as the nurse! He can dress up with the best of them (just watch The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert), but here it just looked silly, and like I said forced. Same with much of the rest of the cast. Whatever point there was in the film, about how we're all connected, it got lost in a mess of silly makeup and cross-dressing.<br /><br />As for my read on their agenda that comes from listening to interviews with the Wachowskis about the film. You could barely get them to say two words about anything prior to this, and now Lana won't shut up about this wonderful, beautiful, multi-colored world we live in, while Andy just seems to nod. I was actually considering writing something about this, but I wanted to see their new film first. I guess I have to wait until February now.David Bjerrehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08187913093957441894noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4097599682335202574.post-89063580472145665212014-06-24T05:59:07.219+02:002014-06-24T05:59:07.219+02:00I am so on board with your mini-reviews (except fo...I am so on board with your mini-reviews (except for The Master, which I think you may return to one day and realize you might have got it wrong first time... ), but alas I draw the line at this comment: 'the Wachowski sisters, whose primary agenda seems to be to show that it's okay to dress up as the opposite sex.' Well, now. Lana Wachowski doesn't 'dress up as the opposite sex'. She is transgender, and the transition she has made was a gruelling, challenging, and difficult journey to make, requiring greater courage than I suspect either you or I would be capable of. Nor does she have a 'primary agenda', socio-political or otherwise. So your comment, with its implied snigger, feels ugly and - given the sharpness of your insightful reviews - unworthy of you.iainhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01678079780927685172noreply@blogger.com