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abbybritton
Reviews
Blow Dry (2001)
Who's Mrs. Burkett?
I liked this movie very much (although I think "Never Better" would have been a better title, but I'm sure there are specific reasons why that title was not used). Thought the lesbian theme was handled well, well enough that I wasn't embarrassed watching it with my 80+-year-old father. Thought the soundtrack was 'fun', but not quite sure why a few of those choices were made. The Climax Blues Band's "Couldn't Get It Right" is a classic drug song and one of my favorites, but I don't see how it fits. And there a few, very few narrative flaws, but no more than typical. Easy to overlook and forgive.
What puzzles me most is why the doctor in the early scene, when she learns she still has cancer, calls Shelley "Mrs. Burkett". Anyone have any guesses?
Flesh (1932)
one of my favorites
This film ... which no one seems to admire but me ... I believe to be one of the finest, touching, moving films I know. I do not believe that Beery plays Polaki as "half-witted" ... I believe his performance is so subtle that he comes across as much closer to "child-like", and so much more endearing. The script is tight. The photography much better than average. Sets are well decorated, lighting is fine. While some may consider the ending to be ambiguous, I do not. I think that Laura waits for him, and they "live happily ever after." But, to have shown that would have degraded to film from representing genuine "seniment" to the too-often-used "sentimentality." The character Laura is quite 'real' ... we've all know women like her. Can't understand why no one seems to recognize its fine aspects.