*nod* I saw. I think I disagree, but again, it's been a long time since I saw the movie.
I read it as a very deconstrictive film--far more deconstructive than you did, I think. Deconstructive of its own anarchy, in fact, while still at a loss to present a better solution. I think the issues it addresses are reasonably valid, and it certainly got me thinking hard, and I didn't feel as if it offered a specific worldview but rather chose to problematise some common ones. Also, I read it as mythological/fairy tale, in the sense that everybody in the movie is somehow a reflection of the central character. And in a lot of ways it's about him feeling emmasculated.
(He's also, you know, quite quite clinically crazy, which is certainly made plain.)
So I guess I'm not seeing construction of gender roles as much of an issue, as it's a movie that's specifically about male experiences of certain kinds of gender roles. (Much as I don't see the lack of significant male characters in, oh, "Boys on the Side" as much of a problem, as it's a movie about a certain kind of female experience of gender.)
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Date: 2006-11-15 09:16 pm (UTC)I read it as a very deconstrictive film--far more deconstructive than you did, I think. Deconstructive of its own anarchy, in fact, while still at a loss to present a better solution. I think the issues it addresses are reasonably valid, and it certainly got me thinking hard, and I didn't feel as if it offered a specific worldview but rather chose to problematise some common ones. Also, I read it as mythological/fairy tale, in the sense that everybody in the movie is somehow a reflection of the central character. And in a lot of ways it's about him feeling emmasculated.
(He's also, you know, quite quite clinically crazy, which is certainly made plain.)
So I guess I'm not seeing construction of gender roles as much of an issue, as it's a movie that's specifically about male experiences of certain kinds of gender roles. (Much as I don't see the lack of significant male characters in, oh, "Boys on the Side" as much of a problem, as it's a movie about a certain kind of female experience of gender.)