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molly_oWell, I wound up liking this movie, but for the first hour or so I really didn't know if I'd make it through. I could NOT STAND the weird, insulated, isolated, creepy feeling. I can tell you the exact moment things turned around for me: When Maggie Gyllenhal (sp?) is at lunch listening to an audiotape, "Coming Out as a Dominant/Submissive," while James Spader types a letter apologizing for his "disgusting" behavior. At last! They've verbalized what's been happening! Thank f@%king god! From then on I was fine.
And looking back (from the vantage point of, oh, an hour) I think my creepy feelings of claustrophobia up to that point actually reflect the sheer genius of whoever directed this movie, because I guess the idea is both of the characters are feeling so weird and isolated, and once they come out, it's like they're part of the real world again. Because from that point on, even as the movie got more surreal, I was fine, things were *grounded*. The really super romantic moment in the film (for my money, even more so than when he carries her over the threshhold as she's wearing her ex-fiance's mother's wedding dress)? When James Spader says, "We can't do this 24 hours a day, 7 days a week!" and she says, "Why not?" SO much possibility there. So, OK, it won me over. But it was a near thing.
Oh, and what's the deal with James Spader acting like Robert Downey Jr.? He does a damn fine job, but it was sorta eerie.
And looking back (from the vantage point of, oh, an hour) I think my creepy feelings of claustrophobia up to that point actually reflect the sheer genius of whoever directed this movie, because I guess the idea is both of the characters are feeling so weird and isolated, and once they come out, it's like they're part of the real world again. Because from that point on, even as the movie got more surreal, I was fine, things were *grounded*. The really super romantic moment in the film (for my money, even more so than when he carries her over the threshhold as she's wearing her ex-fiance's mother's wedding dress)? When James Spader says, "We can't do this 24 hours a day, 7 days a week!" and she says, "Why not?" SO much possibility there. So, OK, it won me over. But it was a near thing.
Oh, and what's the deal with James Spader acting like Robert Downey Jr.? He does a damn fine job, but it was sorta eerie.