This story is loosely based on the story of Mary Kay Letourneau; a married woman and mother who seduces her 7th grade student, is arrested, becomes pregnant, and serves time in jail.
She's played by Julianne Moore's whose performance as "Gracie" was heartbreaking. She plays an insecure, emotionally unstable & immature woman clearly unable to take ownership for her behavior. She doesn't possess an iota of shame, but is also unable to face the responsibility of her actions.
Enter Elizabeth, an actress on assignment playing Gracie in an upcoming film who wants to do research and study her. Very cringe-worthy performance by Natalie Portman, crossing multiple boundaries including repeating history by seducing Gracie's far younger husband. Portman clearly taking on the role of predator in very cringe-worthy moments, her performance is disturbing, and frankly poorly acted, she was hard to watch.
In one of the final scenes, Gracie's husband is having an existential crisis over how old he was, begging Gracie to discuss it, he breaks down in a heartbreaking scene. In typical predator behavior, Gracie blames him for seducing her and being "the boss".
The film is every bit as lurid as the real life story, and I'm not sure what Todd Haynes was attempting to examine here; how these decisions ultimately unravel everyone, or that Predators take many forms-?
Examining the origin of both parties, and what led to her self-described naïveté as an adult would have been far more interesting to me.
Finally, the score was severely distracting, musically repetitive, necessitating muting the music halfway through the film all the way to the end.
She's played by Julianne Moore's whose performance as "Gracie" was heartbreaking. She plays an insecure, emotionally unstable & immature woman clearly unable to take ownership for her behavior. She doesn't possess an iota of shame, but is also unable to face the responsibility of her actions.
Enter Elizabeth, an actress on assignment playing Gracie in an upcoming film who wants to do research and study her. Very cringe-worthy performance by Natalie Portman, crossing multiple boundaries including repeating history by seducing Gracie's far younger husband. Portman clearly taking on the role of predator in very cringe-worthy moments, her performance is disturbing, and frankly poorly acted, she was hard to watch.
In one of the final scenes, Gracie's husband is having an existential crisis over how old he was, begging Gracie to discuss it, he breaks down in a heartbreaking scene. In typical predator behavior, Gracie blames him for seducing her and being "the boss".
The film is every bit as lurid as the real life story, and I'm not sure what Todd Haynes was attempting to examine here; how these decisions ultimately unravel everyone, or that Predators take many forms-?
Examining the origin of both parties, and what led to her self-described naïveté as an adult would have been far more interesting to me.
Finally, the score was severely distracting, musically repetitive, necessitating muting the music halfway through the film all the way to the end.