Friday, May 8, 2009

Call me Coco... Everybody does

This movie was extremely confusing because although I was warned that the story wasn't linear there was no clue from the film until more than halfway through. I kept waiting for the final scene that would nicely wrap up the whole movie and was, sadly, left wanting. I enjoyed the story more once the readings cleared up the time line for me... dreams are really confusing even when a master story teller is the one explaining. I think I felt more inclined toward Diane/Betty because I have dreams that are crazy and sometimes seem better than real life and whenever I wake up I always feel disoriented and wanting more than I have. Thankfully I have never tried to kill myself when I woke up. 
The entire movie had sexual overtones and tension between Betty and Rita... well I guess that was explained at the end. I felt justified about thinking Betty was hitting on Rita at the end of the movie. When I first started noticing the sexual tension my reaction was SERIOUSLY how pathetic to put in lesbian overtones, especially ones so blatantly obvious. What I want to know is if the story could have gone the same way if instead of two women it was a man and a woman. 
And what about the characters playing two characters? Like Camilla and the blond at the dinner party? Was this a knock on the hollywood narcissistic  attitude? Love yourself first others second?

Other than the inconclusive ending I really enjoyed this movie despite my misgivings on the blatant use of sexual overtones

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