Todd Haynes' CAROL, adapting Patricia Highsmith's pseudonymous early '50s lesbian romance

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"Are we to think that lesbians are strange and flung out of space?"

What?? It was a memorable line of dialogue from the film

"In the filmic technicalities or in some element that illuminated the lives of the entirely uninteresting characters?"

they weren't uninteresting to me

Dan S, Tuesday, 8 September 2020 03:10 (three years ago) link

not going to argue anymore about this

Dan S, Tuesday, 8 September 2020 03:14 (three years ago) link

Observing characters that seem like real humans living their human lives can be interesting, even if those characters themselves as individuals are not “interesting people”, like if you met them at a party or whatever. It’s one of the main reasons to watch movies imo. Ymmv I guess but that character and Mara’s performance felt truthful to me, which can be enough for a movie. Maybe it would be more interesting if she were a secret agent or something but idk.

turn the jawhatthefuckever on (One Eye Open), Tuesday, 8 September 2020 03:18 (three years ago) link

reaallllly don't want to talk much more film here but i will say that as far as the movie is concerned it matters much more that carol sees something in her than that we see something in her.

call all destroyer, Tuesday, 8 September 2020 03:26 (three years ago) link


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