Thursday, October 29, 2009

Of all the films we have seen so far, I enjoyed 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her the most. It seemed very accessible to me and had more of a storyline than the majority of the films we've seen. I loved Juliette's character, and when we started talking about her in class I felt inclined to come to her defense. Granted, I do think that a good amount of her philisophical rantings were just her trying to be deeper. Apart from these though, I think she was just trying to do the best she could, and staying relatively positive about her situation. She had to be a hooker, but she did it with class and style, she loved her husband, was a relatively good mother, and even though she was in the business of prostitution she never seemed to lose her dignity. I think one of the main reasons she felt the need to make "deep" observations and opinions about the world all of the time was that it was an effort to over-compensate for her lackluster life situation. She had to keep her dignity and sense of self somehow, and she did that through her thoughts.

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