The Virgin Suicides - fetishising suicide for male fantasy?

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As my sister said when I brought up the controversy of Coppola's Beguiled eliminating the enslaved characters from the original (which I haven't seen), "do you really want her trying to handle that?" Which I thought was fair. Certainly it's something of a failure to not be able to address race in your movie set in the danged Civil War South, but a better failure than trying and doing a bad job, in 2017.

Anyway I hope her next movie includes some of the weird stuff The Virgin Suicides has, like the vignetting, talking heads, anonymous cutaway characters, that bravura shit.

valorous wokelord (silby), Friday, 8 June 2018 23:53 (five years ago) link

depends if Jeffrey Eugenides has another book?

the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 9 June 2018 00:02 (five years ago) link

Somewhere felt like such a whole lot of nothing to me

otm. I just couldn't find anything, anywhere in that movie

Anglo Scarfy (rip van wanko), Saturday, 9 June 2018 00:15 (five years ago) link

Eugenedies has like three or four other books, at least oneof them is amazing (middlesex) but she'd be the wrong director to adapt it

akm, Saturday, 9 June 2018 02:55 (five years ago) link


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