I liked it!
Yeah, yeah. What a lame review. For a film that's long been out. But, you know, this site needs some content. And the bar needs to be lowered after all those well-thought out reviews.
I just saw this on a DVD on my crappy computer, and well, I liked it. Call me a sucker if you like. And I bet it would have been even better on a big screen.
OK, it's not all that new an idea for a movie. And it reminded me a lot of that Spielberg flick on the same subject and with the same stylish fifties or whatever look (hey, I've got a small screen. I know I saw a Lexus, but it still looked like California in the 50s to me).
Ahh our plastic lives, so light, so absurd, yet tinged with tragic, non? And le rêve américain, it has its ragged edges, oui?
In lesser news I saw "Phone Game", which, now that I think about it, was just embarrassing, like a cheesy old existentialist theatre piece dressed up in fancy Hollywood clothes.
And truly off-topic, I've acquired and watched all the episodes of the last season of Sex and the City. And I have finally acquired a CD writer (woo) so I can share the joy. I personally found the last episode's encounter in a Paris restaurant between Sarah Jessica Parker and Carole Bouquet rather remarkable. Like oil and water. Or like a New York bubble being popped in jaded old Paris.
Posted by Kai Carver at April 2, 2004 10:50 PMahh... so Sarah Jessica Parker did go to Paris after all?! What happened at last? The last season of Sex and the City is not available here in Taiwan... huh... better not tell me... huh... but I quite wanna know the result....
Btw, not related to this topic either, can I find Yi Yi in Paris? maybe in a movie theater? It's just so ironic that this Taiwan movie has never been played in Taiwan! I even can't find it in the DVD shop!
Posted by: Yuwen Yang at April 3, 2004 02:01 PM13
Sarah Jessica Parker
Actress
WHEN GIRLS THINK another girl is beautiful, but guys know she isn't, call it the Sarah Jessica Parker syndrome. Parker is a dual monument to millennial American female vanity and inanity. Spoiled and groomed to the point of psychosis, Sarah Jessica Parker is the final dead-end in the American feminine odyssey. She dresses like a drag queen, a slave and sometimes a clown. Her hair is bleached and processed literally to the breaking point: A hairdresser revealed that all of Parker's hair once broke off beneath her ears. The actress speaks like an 11-year-old girl and has less to say; lacking utterly in charm, she compensates with screamy clothes and pointy shoes. Now that she is at long last gone, we're hoping new icons will spring up to replace her, and we're hoping they'll be wearing no-name jeans, going light on the eyeliner and reading a newspaper every once in a while.
Just one of the 50 MOST LOATHSOME NEW YORKERS
Posted by: Kai Carver at April 8, 2004 04:19 AMHa, very interesting... so there ARE some opinions in this world "recoginsing" Parker's plain acting. Personally, I think she overacts and plays cute too much, even though I am quite a great fan of "Sex and the City".
By the way, what syndrome do you call when a guy thinks a girl pretty but girls know she isn't?
Posted by: Yuwen Yang at April 10, 2004 01:18 PM