So, it's not that I haven't been watching movies... it's just that my downtime after the movies has been a little more rare. Regardless...
Can I just say? I think Evan Rachel Wood is simply gleaming with nubile promise. She's got this incredible fragile fury that I'm pretty sure is gonna take her places... and fast! Really, she reminds me of a pre-Closer Natalie Portman. She's not yet quite as sexy as the Natalie Portman in that SNL rap video thing (that video has an effect on my I can't fully explain... but... Damn! It! That little pixie haircut and all that f-word-ing. Is it hot in here?) but the potential is there. And this brings me to my viewing of Pretty Persuasion.
I think this movie probably overshot a little in its ambition. It's an entertaining story about a very very bad little private school girl... behold the stock porno character! And Wood certainly is something to behold. But, tacked onto the end, we find something of a poorly integrated stick-on moral. Or maybe it's not so much a moral as it is an attempt at locating a social conscience in what is basically a simultaneously fluffy and dark sex farce. In the last five minutes, it suddenly becomes an indictment upon the culture of American High Schools in which we have teachers constantly fucking students and students constantly bringing semi-automatics into the cafeterias... *Yawn*. I could've done without the moralizing and been happy with the little bit of devious, slightly deviant candy that this movie was at the onset. Well, maybe not happy... certainly not enraptured... but more certainly more entertained than I would have been if I had spent an evening watching She's All That.
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How about Charlize Theron playing Aileen Wuono, the Florida hooker/serial killer executed in 2002, in Patty Jenkins' 2003 flick Monster? Theron was somewhat "uglified" for the role, so that may not count since she wasn't pretty in the movie.
It doesn't count at all. That movie's actually goes the furthest in ugly-ing up a pretty girl... and beyong that, she was fucked up, though not all that quirky and idiosyncratic. A more similar role to that would be Halle Berry in Monster's Ball-- though not much could disguise the fact that she still looks like Halle Berry with her clothes off. But niether of those characters embraced their weirdness in the way that an artist like Frida Kahlo did... and so, I maintain, I'd like to see a really pretty girl act like a nutjob... like maybe, Brad Pitt in 12 Monkeys or Fight Club-- neither role could really disguise how pretty he is-- but his looks don't distract from the fact that those characters are real oddballs, right?
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