http://www.laweekly.com/news/why-is-it-so-hard-to-catch-drink-drugging-assholes-7616060
Turned to the back and looked at ads for movies. Gee, there's a picture of a woman staring into the eyes of a cat, I remember when I used to see films a lot, I wonder what that movie is about?
UM.
http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/elle-2016
Sounds
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/11/movies/elle-review-isabelle-huppert.html
Fucked
http://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/the-phony-sexual-transgressions-of-paul-verhoevens-elle
Up
It might be worth seeing but it definitely sounds fucked up.
Watching "Elle" feels like climbing Everest without an oxygen tank. The air is dizzyingly clear up there. And dangerous, too. (Sheila O'Malley)
~ http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/elle-2016
Hmmm.
"Much of his work from the ’80s and ’90s — “RoboCop,” “Starship Troopers,” “Basic Instinct” and, yes, “Showgirls” — is still worth watching, and still misunderstood.
~ http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/11/movies/elle-review-isabelle-huppert.html
A film about a rape victim/survivor by the guy who directed Showgirls???
"Throughout the film, Verhoeven gives the impression of laughing up his sleeve at Michèle’s predicament as well as at her predilection, as if he were getting away with telling a sexist joke in a speech at a feminist convention."
~http://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/the-phony-sexual-transgressions-of-paul-verhoevens-elle
That is not hard to believe.
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In essence, she redeems control over the rape-revenge narrative by forcing consent onto her rapist.
~http://birthmoviesdeath.com/2016/12/02/paul-verhoevens-elle-discomfort-through-narrative-subversion
I wonder how he would make it if the main character was male.
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