what the hell is up with the music!?
the songs in the movie don't fit with what's happening on the screen... really weird, and tasteless; *beep* 'adult-alternative' songs are completely out of place with rape and voyeur.
shareand what type of music would you say is rape appropriate? whats a good rape soundtrack??
i thought the music was great
well, a more dramatic or dark score...
score; not a corny alternative song.
or at least an instrumental song.
totally out of place. it really bothered me.
i don't think one should have to be told by musical cues whether or not something they're watching is dark and disturbing.
the fact that you were bothered by watching a rape scene probably isn't such a horrible thing.
i thought it just made the whole scene much more effective and disturbing
i just have this thing that if i don't like the music in a film, or see it as fitting with the whole context i automatically can't fully enjoy it.
maybe there's a problem with me.
rape in film doesn't bother me, hell... i think irreversible is a masterpiece. ihchi the killer, i spit on your grave, a serbian film, i saw the devil, a clockwork orange, the devil's rejects... i think all of those are awesome films and i'm not put off by them having rape... it's not that.
maybe i just don't dig 'adult-alternative'... i find very upbeat lyrics going "you will see that i'm right!" very distracting while i'm watching something that's supposed to be disturbing.
but well, i suppose that the music is not the biggest problem with The Woman... I love May, Sick Girl and The Woods very much... They are all very stylish, very beautiful tales of horror, and that's the reason i watched this; because of Lucky McKee... The Woman has bad acting from almost everyone, ugly ugly cinematography just very bad lit and lazy...
a big letdown...
But to each his own.
that's fine everyone reacts to things differently.
btw I also think Irreversible is a masterpiece (one of my fave films) and I wasn't so much saying that you were put off by rape but in my opinion for a rape scene to be done properly it should be somewhat disturbing (like in irreversible).
Was just trying to say that maybe that particular feeling of you being put off by the out of context music was what the director intended, to make the scene that much more uncomfortable.
anyway to each his own, you clearly like a lot of awesome films
I agree about the music. It felt so out of place at times.
shareI couldn't disagree with you more. The acting was fantastic. Pollyanna McIntosh should have won an Oscar for her portrayal as The Woman. The music was a perfect counter-weight to the film...pure genious. Sick Girl was a piece of *beep* I never even finished it...not because of the direction but because of the incredibly boring story and pathetic attempt at black humor.
Also, the cinematography in the Woman was fantastic..everyone I showed it to commented on the beautiful scenery, and the camera work was ingenious. Also, this movie was so much better than May, May seemed like a school project compared to it. This movie was a classic, and it will be around a lot longer than you will.
Law? WHERE'S THE LAW NOW!!??!!-Burt Reynolds; Deliverance.
I agree about the music being out of place. I too was put off by the music and while I didn't like the film as a whole, I thought the only good thing about it was the acting, which was great from everyone involved except the teacher who was the only one who really sucked.
el_anarchy, I felt the same way, when the music kicked in, it sounded like a very intermediate local bar house band. It was jarring and took you out of the film.
shareThis is a different kind of movie. It's not trying to glorify what it shows as much as it is sending a message. Sorry it doesn't fit in as well with the rest of your torture porn.
shareI'd say there probably is something wrong with you. If you enjoy watching rape scenes and they don't bother you, you should have loved this music. If watching a rape scene with dark, dramatic music, or adult alternative doesn't make you uncomfortable, what would? Adult contemporary? Show tunes? I think you should seek help. Sooner rather than later.
shareIf you want to hear bad cues, listen to "The Outsiders", the version that Coppola put 50's songs
right over the top of dialogue and regular score. There are parts where you can hardly hear
what people are saying. And there is just plain goofy 50's pop songs in places where horrible
things are taking place. However, putting music in scenes that are dark, but as long as that music
is dark in some way, I have no problem with.
Think of Movies that use Queen heavily, suck as Flash Gordon, or Highlander. Do that today and it
would sound ridiculous, but looking back at those classics, to use anything else would have just
ruin those movies...
I totally agree. It didn't fit the tone of the movie at all. And to those that argue that it was meant to be that way for contrast, well, that could justify playing anything in a movie because it might be for contrast. In this case I think it was just random and out of place. I think the movie could have been improved by a more interesting score, instead of the random songs that were chosen. Just my humble opinion, of course.
shareThat's the whole point, bud. The music was supposed to throw you off and I think it works quite well.
share"Fat Bottomed Girls" by Queen.
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