|
Pretty BabyRating:
Release Date: 18 November, 2003 Retail Price: $14.98 OUR Price: $9.88 You SAVE: $5.10! Cast: Complete Cast (8 total) |
Pretty Baby Reviews
Powerfully taken
Louis Malle approach produces a genuinely fresh moral perspective, as in the treatment of incest in murmur of the heart.A scene in which Shields is sold to the highest bidder is pretty tough to watch, but director Louis Malle handles the whole thing with taste and restraint.The camera pauses for long periods on face and nude body. The role consists of several multi-faceted characteristics, mother, hooker, model, wife, and businesswoman, yet it convinces us in each one.
Disturbing, poignant, yet beautiful....
The beautiful young Brooke Shields plays 11/12 year old Violet, daughter of Hattie (Susan Sarandon) a New Orleans prostitute living and working in a brothel in 1917. Violet has been raised in the brothel and has not been to school and has known no other life or anything about the outside world. When she turns 12, her virginity is auctioned off. Brooke Shields' portrayal of Violet is poignant and beautiful. Her childish charms and innocence are so heart-wrenchingly sweet. The scene where she jumps up and down on the photographer's bed (very childlike) and asks him whether he will take care of her before throwing her arms around him and giving him small childlike kisses on the nose, forehead etc. and reciting that little rhyme really pulled at my heart strings! I just wanted to jump into the TV and give her a hug!! This, mixed with the seductive adult things that she also says in this scene (and others) is particularly poignant as we know that young Violet is merely reciting what she's heard from the prostitutes. The photographer also says that Violet doesn't know what she's saying. You just want to turn the clock back, hug Violet and give her a proper childhood! The photographer marries her because he's fascinated with her beauty, innocence and is concerned that she is only a child and should not be in a brothel becoming a prostitute. The part where he gives her a doll is poignant as she has already lost her virginity and it seems that he's trying to give back her childhood, sadly she's been exposed to too much, too soon in her life. Susan Sarandon and Brooke Shields are wonderful in this movie as well as Keith Carradine, the photographer. The art aspect & music soundtrack are amazing. This movie deals with a taboo subject seen through the eyes of a child as 'normal' which enhances poignancy and brings out the viewers maternal need to 'rescue' young Violet.
More Customer Reviews (22 total)
You like Pretty Baby?
|
© 2004, 2005, 2006 DVD Booty | Don't Plunder Our Cache of Booty, Matey!
Hosting made possible by donations from All Debt Services, Become Debt Free Today, and Debt Solution Info
