hold me I am scared

What is wrong with the Internet?

http://imdb.com/name/nm1426886/bio
and commentary from her at http://imdb.com/title/tt0346491/board/thread/13638163

This was apparently fandom wanked and I'm now just catching up on it -- but, yo, WHAT IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE?

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I've probably a lot to say about this, just not right now:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/02/opinion/02dowd.html?hp

Especially the issue at the end -- about how women like to watch movies about men, but men don't like to watch movies about women, and the vague assertion that women a) like watching movies about men for the eye-candy and b) should stop watching movies about men to make a point.

I think I've heard this one before, and it's called "woman write about relationships, men write about ideas" and is usually said to imply "women's writing is trivial".

Surly.

Meanwhile, am experiencing random anxiety _and_ randomly burst into tears listening to the Moulin Rouge soundtrack (despite what you might be inclined think, this is rather freakish for me). Granted, I was reading about the Ukraine election situation at the time (why this makes anything make more sense, I am not so sure).

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So I'm seeing Closer tonight at midnight. Remember how American Beauty made a lot of people sort of intensely angry? I think this is going to be like that, only more pronounced, more common and more justified. The reviews are mixed and intense. I'm really tremendously excited for it.

The big initial criticisms seem to be "why do we care if bad things happen to bad people?" and "no one talks like this." Having read and loved the play, I think my answers are (and we'll see what the film's are) -- "because sometimes we're all bad people" and "but in our own minds, don't we often wish we did?" Also, my ex- and I sort of did communicate that way.

ETA: Whoops. That didn't happen. Tomorrow evening, clearly.