this is the girl-movie antidote

Rating: Null/10 (13 July 2000)

to those of us who know that nagging sense of misapprehension, of knowing that no matter how well we force ourselves to behave, there is this other part that resists, that has to do with our primal role as the guardian of the perimeter of our own sense of safety, this movie appears as a gift, a sudden unexpected recognition that what we have always known as immutably isolated individuals is, in fact, true for all of us. whether we are less or more or simply equal, here we have the first cultural return, wrapped in all of the crap, in all of the willful illusion we have perpetrated on ourselves, and , yet bursting to the seams with the truth of the cruelty of being whatever it is that we are. in short, if you are lucky enough to have a female friend, lover, whatever, who is willing and/or able to sit through and respond to this, then, i swear, by all that i know, you are on the right track. on the other hand, if this movie doesn't make you wonder about yourself, then you are too young or too dead. in either case, i have nothing left to say.