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Reviews
Modern Girls (1986)
"totallyrad80" should have been studying --
How to be literate in her native language.
What might she have learned from the exchange that these girls never pay for parking, or drinks, etc. -- instead they are "liberated" from the conscientiousness of not using men to pay their way.
I enjoyed the film, but also recognized that little has changed: women looking for men with the largest bulge in their back pockets to "take care of them" -- for men to be responsible, while the women indulge their irresponsibility.
Dont Look Back (1967)
"Top Review" doesn't get it --
It's no insight to assert that imperfect human Dylan is at times a jerk: everyone is.
But to accuse him of "babbling," and whatever, in his confrontation with the "Time" magazine journalist instead of focusing on the substance -- the journalist doesn't know anything about Dylan, didn't do any research about him, but was imply "assigned" by the editors reveals more about the media of the day than about Dylan.
How can a review by a person who knows nothing about Dylan, who writes a passing-through drive-by "revview," be a "Top Review"? And aren't movie reviews to be about the movie, not about a single character in it?
Well, we do get revelation about the reviewer: politically opposed to "Woke"-ness -- contrary to the fact that the Founders of the United States were about the Enlightenment -- "Woke-ness" -- over against smug closed-minded paranoia about violating the borders of their bubble.
John Adams (2008)
Continuing pseudo-knowledge --
All the praise of this mini-series is deserved. But those who don't focus on John Adams rather miss the point: it is a biography of him.
And one reviewer writes, "For most of us the Declaration of Independence is taken for granted." I have no idea what the "Declaration" has to do with it, as it has never been law (it was a propaganda piece). The Constitution is law, and the model for it was the Massachusetts constitution, which was written by John Adams (except the section establishing a state religion, which was written by his cousin, propagandist Sam Adams).
For another view of John Adams, see the excellent "1776": he was "obnoxious and disliked"; but it was he who pushed for declaring independence from Britain, against opposition mostly from Southern slave-owning conservatives.
It's an injustice to write about this film and miss the point: it is a biography of John Adams, not of Washington, Jefferson, and Franklin, et al.
2046 (2004)
Correction --
"Mr. Chow is seen so much in love with Bai Ling."
Chow is not in love with Bai Ling. He is in love with the character in his past, as represented by Maggie Cheung, and with the same name as the Li Gong character.
Bai Ling is, however, in love with Chow -- and as result ends up being where Chow has been all along: trapped in the past.
And there is fairly direct hint that he's in love with Faye Wong's character -- "the happiest summer of my life"; sometimes he makes and excuse to pick her up at work to take her home, which in the instance shown she declines -- though she not with him.
Ba wang bie ji (1993)
Correction --
"He suffers the same jealous anger and sense of betrayal as might be found when a wife discovers the cheatings of her husband, and reacts, unfortunately, accordingly (Heroin)."
I don't know how a person can watch a film, give it a rave review, and yet get prominent details wrong. As example, it is made clear in the film that Deiyi is addicted to OPIUM.
As for whether Deiyi was "asexual" or homosexual: it's obvious, in the film (reality might have been different, in view of the fact that the film is FICTION*), that he has a homosexual relationship -- it is in the context of that he becomes addicted to opium. _____
*That one of the characters is "modeled" on Mei Lanfang does not make that character Mei Lanfang. _____
One sees equivalent scenario in the subsequent "Mei Lanfang"/"Forever Enthralled".