Marie Antoinette

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So I've been watching more Marie Antoinette on the portable DVD player while lounging about in bed. I don't think I've ever had the sense of so visual a film being better on the small screen, but it is, at least, on a small screen you hold in your hand -- it's like a smuggled diary. I get, this time, from watching it, such a sense of terror from the film, this sense that to be good at bieng a woman means you can't really be good at anything else. The film is, of course, of a time and place and our world is one of freedom blah blah blah, but man, it freaks me out.

I think this is one of those films that is going to age very well, despite the critical and popular reception when it was released. Of course, I also have a thing for movies that are broken -- see: AI.

As an aside, Mi-Del Gluten-free mint sandwhich cookies are the most disgusting things I've ever eaten and not in a good way.

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[ladyofthelog.livejournal.com]

I get, this time, from watching it, such a sense of terror from the film, this sense that to be good at bieng a woman means you can't really be good at anything else.

Agreed.

Maybe that's the reason why I'm so captivated by it, I don't know.