Agreed. It seemed like two main things were going on... (1) they were trying to sell the cinematography, like "here's this extremely beautifully-shot movie" for all the film nerds out there... which is totally okay, but also just kind of incongruent with the core content they paired it to... and then (2) they were trying to do that whole "look at how PROGRESSIVE we are, we showed a WOMAN being EMPOWERED and forcing TWO MEN to fight over her and even have a THREESOME!".
Which, okay, whatever, I'm always like you do you boo, break whatever barriers you want... but also don't ask me to congratulate you for putting like half your pinky toe across the line and then acting like you really stuck your neck out on this one. For my entire life, Hollywood's always been up its own ass on what it thinks stretches boundaries, and in my fourth decade of this shit I simply can't work up the interest to be impressed. I mean, there are already arthouse movies where the actors have real sex with each other but it's not porn... the boundaries are gone, and have been gone for a long time. Try just making art?
Agreed. It seemed like two main things were going on... (1) they were trying to sell the cinematography, like "here's this extremely beautifully-shot movie" for all the film nerds out there... which is totally okay, but also just kind of incongruent with the core content they paired it to... and then (2) they were trying to do that whole "look at how PROGRESSIVE we are, we showed a WOMAN being EMPOWERED and forcing TWO MEN to fight over her and even have a THREESOME!".
Which, okay, whatever, I'm always like you do you boo, break whatever barriers you want... but also don't ask me to congratulate you for putting like half your pinky toe across the line and then acting like you really stuck your neck out on this one. For my entire life, Hollywood's always been up its own ass on what it thinks stretches boundaries, and in my fourth decade of this shit I simply can't work up the interest to be impressed. I mean, there are already arthouse movies where the actors have real sex with each other but it's not porn... the boundaries are gone, and have been gone for a long time. Try just making art?