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That's pretty wild, that you picked up on Alice watching Blume in Love. I mean obviously its a deliberate choice by Kubrick but I never would have noticed that.
Yeah, I agree. The ending is underwhelming, although I did think Michelle's death was quite poignant.
It definitely has some Hitchcockian tropes, some even say its Polanski's attempt at Hitchcock but yes there is a tonal change in the film once Michelle arrives. There is also some unspoken romantic/sexual tension between Walker and Michelle with that extended dance sequence. Critics like Roger Ebert said it was unnecessarily long but it was obviously a deliberate choice by Polanski to highlight Walker being tempted. Even the ending, it feels as if Walker is trying to convince himself of his love for his wife while obviously being devastated by Michelle's death.
Her keys were in the suitcase that Walker had. She even said that to him. I don't get what the plot hole is. She could have climbed through the window when she first arrived home too. She seemed accustomed to doing it when Walker was watching her.
Isn't it just a reference to Ford himself? The first 30 minutes of the movie, you definitely feel Ford being Frantic about his wife disappearing. Obviously, the pacing changes once Michelle appears in the film.
She films herself having sex with other men and sells it as content. How isn't that porn? It may be all self made but its still porn nonetheless.
Good choice. It just might be mine too. I can't help be enthralled by it whenever I watch it, its like comfort food. It makes you wish you were on a riverboat on the Seine in 1960's Paris. Audrey is stunning and despite the age gap, the chemistry between her and Cary is just really believable.
And you think the "professionals" are unbiased? Hilarious. Political correctness is not a "conspiracy" either, its pretty much mainstream in 2025.
I watched a Louis Theroux prison doco about how paedophiles who were incarcerated for sexual crimes against children were separated from general population (gen pop) because they were at high risk of being victims of violence. Many of those interviewed identified themselves as being homosexual, its common sense that they would too. Not sure, why you consider this "unusual".
Which "professionals"? They lie because they don't want to offend. Its common sense, you don't need a professional to tell you that. Many male paedophiles who sexually abuse boys identify as being gay, just as men who molest girls identify as being straight, they don't consider themselves only attracted to children.
"However it is more exact to say that most paedophiles who abuse boys are not homosexual, just as those who abuse girls are not heterosexual. "
People don't lose their sexual preference just because they choose to violate children. This is such a stupid, politically correct take.
Males are frequently more likely to underreport being victims of sexual abuse. Those numbers should be taken with a grain of salt.
Which "Jesus"? He believed in a false Jesus. He was a proponent for gay marriage, a Biblical oxymoron.
He believed in Universalism, that faith in Christ alone is not necessary to be saved and his favourite song was John Lennon's "Imagine", a song that is positively Anti-Christian.
I thought you were referencing the fact he was a false Christian and that he is currently in hell.
Do you have a source for that "fact"?
The irony is, by including the 1 star reviews, (you can't give a zero on imdb) the original iMDB score was around 5-5.5 but by excluding them its a 6.8.
Aussie here. You are right about it being the highest participation sport at least at one point it was.
Stealing Francoise from Etienne is not meaning well.
Because they are demonic.
Straight from the horse's mouth.
"It became really clear to me when I started to adapt it that there's a big shift needed for a modern audience", Farr said.
"The story is basically about women getting pregnant and yet, somehow, it's so male as a book.
"So a big shift across from the male to the female started and, me being the writer is a bit weird of course, so female writers came on board."
Farr continued: "And it was a conscious thing, we really wanted to find a director as well as a lead actress, as it was a male role, the Keeley Hawes one, that would enhance that.
If that's not a political agenda, the term has lost all meaning.