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andrewducker) wrote2003-02-03 01:08 pm
andrewducker) wrote2003-02-03 01:08 pm
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Just added this one to the archive. Ooh, I got to use the word apposite!
It's amazing how much the context of a film changes its impact. I loved Fight Club because I knew almost nothing about it before I walked into the cinema, I felt let down by The Matrix because so many people had told me it was intelligent and deep, I was put off U-571 by knowing that it was factually inaccurate and I can happily say that watching Trainspotting with your parents makes it feel like a whole different film...
I'd seen Gingersnaps a year or so ago, and it came across as a fun, smart horror flick. Nothing hugely special, but definitely better than the huge number of churned out slasher movies. Watching it with a couple of girls, however, definitely moved it up the scale a several notches.
Scenes which were merely background to me assumed new significance when they obviously resonated with the girls. The whole menstruation/puberty/transformation/lycanthropy metaphor seemed much more apposite and the whole mood of the film clicked into focus far better than when I watched it with an all male audience.
So, if you fancy seeing a darkly humorous take on the werewolf genre, where a young woman is cursed to an obsession with blood, strange physical changes, unexpected hair growth and mood swings that go just a little further than most, I recommend you pick this one up. Especially if you have someone female to watch it with.
Score: 6.5, 8 if watching it in female company.
ObQuote:
Brigitte: Are you *sure* it's just cramps?
Ginger: Just so you know, the words 'just' and 'cramps', they don't go together.
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Ginger: "No-one ever thinks chicks do shit like this. A girl can only be a slut, bitch, tease or the virgin next door. We'll just coast on how the world works."
It's amazing how much the context of a film changes its impact. I loved Fight Club because I knew almost nothing about it before I walked into the cinema, I felt let down by The Matrix because so many people had told me it was intelligent and deep, I was put off U-571 by knowing that it was factually inaccurate and I can happily say that watching Trainspotting with your parents makes it feel like a whole different film...
I'd seen Gingersnaps a year or so ago, and it came across as a fun, smart horror flick. Nothing hugely special, but definitely better than the huge number of churned out slasher movies. Watching it with a couple of girls, however, definitely moved it up the scale a several notches.
Scenes which were merely background to me assumed new significance when they obviously resonated with the girls. The whole menstruation/puberty/transformation/lycanthropy metaphor seemed much more apposite and the whole mood of the film clicked into focus far better than when I watched it with an all male audience.
So, if you fancy seeing a darkly humorous take on the werewolf genre, where a young woman is cursed to an obsession with blood, strange physical changes, unexpected hair growth and mood swings that go just a little further than most, I recommend you pick this one up. Especially if you have someone female to watch it with.
Score: 6.5, 8 if watching it in female company.
ObQuote:
Brigitte: Are you *sure* it's just cramps?
Ginger: Just so you know, the words 'just' and 'cramps', they don't go together.
__
Ginger: "No-one ever thinks chicks do shit like this. A girl can only be a slut, bitch, tease or the virgin next door. We'll just coast on how the world works."
Re:
And it was in slo-mo, too. Real turn off.
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The best bit of that scene, for me, was the shocked looked on her sister's face at the end of it, because she knows exactly how badly it's going to end for all involved.