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Release Date: 09 March, 2004 Retail Price: $14.94 OUR Price: $10.99 You SAVE: $3.95! Cast: Complete Cast (12 total) |
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Exaggerated Feminist View of the 1950's
My wife loved this movie but I thought it was only a 5 out of 10 at best. Julia Robert's lips annoy me to no end and her character in this film simply didn't ring true to me nor did any of the other characters, because they all seemed to be so exaggerated. I was in college during this period and while things were a great deal more conservative than they are today I don't recall them as being as conservative and uptight as this film portrays. None of the girls I dated during this period felt that their future was tied to some man. In fact several of the girls (women) that I knew and dated during this period went on to have significant careers (and marriages).
I cannot believe that any mother would expect her daughter to stick by a philandering jerk like this film would have you believe. Julia Robert's character was there to teach art history but seems more focused on getting her feminist agenda across than doing her job. Furthermore her view of art seemed rather narrow much like teaching music appreciation by focusing exclusively on Rock. I thought she should have been fired for failing to teach the subject.
I also couldn't or didn't understand the affair between her and the smarmy philandering teacher who was bedding his students. Even a blind man could have seen from the outset what this man was like and a feminist like Robert's was supposed to have been would not have tolerated him for a minute. In fact, reporting him to the administration would have been more in character.
Overall I thought the film was entertaiing and I watched it to the end. As I said my wife loved this film and thought it portrayed life as she knew it during this period. Not being a woman maybe it did, but for me the entire film was exaggerated and unbelievable. Julia Robert's looks like she has fish lips -- very annoying to me, but that is just personal.
well, about 3 minutes was good.
I'm a little late with my review here - I went to see this one at the theater when it came out, just because I'd heard Tori Amos was going to be in it. Too bad her screen time was less than five minutes, and you have to buy the soundtrack to hear the entire songs ("You Belong to Me" and the witty "Murder He Says"). She looked and sounded as gorgeous as always, though it was odd to see her singing away from a piano. I bought the soundtrack and liked some of the other songs on it as well.
Julia Roberts' character was kind of annoying. Hmmm, having an affair with a lying womanizer doesn't seem like the feminist thing to do...just a tad hypocritical.
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