Sleeping Beauty: I went and saw Sleeping Beauty on Sunday, Dec. 7 in the afternoon. I wanted to see this movie out of sheer curiosity, as I've read a lot of mixed reviews from it being slow, mediocre to being senseless and pretentious. Regardless, I never ever listen to any sort of review and always decide on judging for myself. Anyhow, Emily Browning was by far the masterpiece of this film. Her role of Lucy was both courageous and annoyingly apathetic. Lucy is a struggling college student, trying to make ends meet, by taking odd ball jobs, 1. allowing herself to be experimented on while fighting her gag reflexes and 2. dealing with a terrible boss lady in another sterile corporate office. While all of this goes on, we notice that she enjoys random sex and playing around with her sexual power but also giving it up, at the simple game of coin toss. There is no real explanations as to why she is detached, almost doll-like in her dealings with sex, which leads us to her new job in where she takes a sleeping narcotic in order to allow men to do whatever they please while not being allowed to "penetrate her vagina". Not a must see, but for those of you who are curious about sexuality and why people do what they do, as I am, why not. Emily Browning is definitely talented and while she was naked in more then half the film, which was not sexy at all, as (I would assume) is intended for the viewer that is paying close attention.
Shame: Again, another film about the detachment of human emotion from sex without any explanation. Why is this? I don't understand why films these days are just all about the act and nothing is offered about the reasons behind the detachment. We went from a puritanical society, total complete conservative views to sex and now, just someone who is accepted as a sex addict as if its something seen as normal and everyday? I am not convinced.
Brandon is a sex addict in New York City, perhaps the most convenient place to be one. We see him awake from a one night stand that he's just had, lying in bed, before he gets up to use the shower. This is his everyday, sex with stranger, they leave, he gets up takes a shower and we see him cleaning himself well. While this is all happening, his sister is calling, leaving messages, desperately trying to reach him, while he continuously ignores and goes on watching his porn in order to get off. On top of this, we see the close relationship he has with his boss, a total douchebag who makes Brandon look like a saint, when we find out that he's married with kids and spends his nights prowling the city for any willing woman. In comes his sister, who ends up showing up without any (real) warning and Brandon has to deal with her. We see them joke around and fight like any brother and sister would, although, there is a bit of an underlying feeling of incestuous behavior between the two, that just doesn't sit quite well with me, and is again, left unexplained. We also find that his sister is mentally fucked up, when it comes to her casual sex. Any reasons for this? Why are Brandon and Sissy so fucked up? We don't know. All we know is that they come from a very bad place.... While I was left a bit annoyed (again) with no real explanation of why and how, I did appreciate Brandon's downward spiral, how the idea of sexual excess can lead anyone of us into depravity.
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