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Release Date: 01 June, 2003 Retail Price: $14.98 OUR Price: $12.99 You SAVE: $1.99! Cast: Complete Cast (5 total) |
The Shape Of Things Reviews
The Evil of Art
Like being punched in the nose, the pain is so shocking that it leaves you fallen to the ground holding your head in surprise and victimizing you pride. Being dumped in a relationship can hurt a person, in The Shape of Things; Evelyn (Rachel Weisz) plays an evil hearted woman who sculpts a human being into her art thesis. In this sour comedy Evelyn's main title for her thesis is "Moralists have no place in an art gallery," which holds true for the climax for this movie. Adam (Paul Rudd) ironically works in a museum, who innocently discovers Evelyn and from that point Evelyn secretly molds and shapes Adam into societies clich? of what people see in popular magazines. Evelyn uses her skill of sexual seduction, convincing persuasion, and even reframes from using powerful motives such as; you must or you have to. With these artistic persuading skills Adam has changed his style of clothing, his sense of style, he finds him having surgery on his imperfect nose, disregards his friends, and even lives a different way to accommodate Evelyn's wants. Neil LaBute writes edits and directs this move in such a poetic and sophisticated way that he is the modern day parallel to Edgar Allen Poe. Having the climax at the end of the movie makes it slow paced, but with patience this move really is emotionally disgusting. Labute successfully created this movie to show that "Moralists have no place in an art gallery." Labute also demonstrates how powerful the combination of women and persuasion has on men, and what extremities men will do to satisfy a women's needs. It is controversial to say that "Moralists have no place in an art gallery," because of history of art. Shakespeare demonstrated tragedy, but tragedy shows us reality, and other poets who talk about happiness, these are things that show us reality and it is the reality of art to show us what is moral and what is not. The Shape of Things is a move about a big question, is there moral in art? This movie successfully challenges the audience to think about that big question. It is also ironic that the characters name are Adam and Evelyn... Creative but sad this move is granted four stars out of five.
The Shapes Are Diabolical
Some people may not feel this movie the same way others do, as it seems to be a Conversationalist film and not a so much the college love story you may expect. At first it definitely does feel like love is brewing between the two main characters but after a while it loses the love and gains a ton of drama. The best thing about The Shape of things is that after a little bit of time the film becomes unpredictable. This movie is filled with talk and even ends in a lot of talk but it is more interesting than boring and you get hooked to see where the story is going.
Adam (Paul Rudd) meets his future girlfriend Evelyn (Rachel Weisz) in the museum he works security. Unfortunately they meet while Evelyn is closing in on a very important sculpture but the can of spray paint in her hand lets Adam know she's not there for a closer look. Now I figure that trouble is coming but the two are almost perfect for each other and they settle for a number exchange. Evelyn is a loud and sometimes obnoxious art soldier and loves anything she can do to make a statement. Paul on the other hand is a nice, calm, and shy guy or geek. Paul's two friends Phillip and Jenny who are engaged give the story that gigantic load of drama it needed to keep the viewer interested.
The four-man cast does a great job making you believe that love or some affection is involved between them but the mystery is who actually loves each other. The genius in the Shape of Things though lies within the belief that one thing is going on and then bam your hit with an unexpected ending and a nicely done performance from Rachel Weisz. She never gives off the secret that she's hiding from her new boyfriend.
This is a movie not only about well kept secrets but psycho girls willing to do anything to get what they want, dishonesty, betrayal, an unlikely love, and most astonishing humiliation for a good grade on an art project. Though to some this film would seem to be unoriginal it was very well done. The style that it was made with was very smooth even though it's mostly talk. It's a great movie and I'm sure that girls will enjoy it on almost all levels especially the ending that is sure to destroy any guy and Rachel Weisz definitely nailed the coffin shut. The story tries to get you to wonder why Evelyn is with Adam but the real story and mystery is why she gets him to change so much or her obsession with photographing and taping themselves but eventually she tells you and it makes the movie pretty good.
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