My blog reviews movies as political, historical or social commentary with intentional disregard for their artistic or cinematic value. One foe of American political scientists and economists is that they ignore movies as sources to inform them on changes in American culture, view exoticism as a hallmark of "foreigness" and, at the same time, impart American values and judgment to foreign movies.
Saturday, December 27, 2014
Gone Girl
Very good thriller, sharp and dialogues are mostly well written. Rosamund Pike is great as a psychopath. But, in fact, the movie is a faithful portrait of normal, everyday family relations only over-dramatized for the screen.
Yet, as in "Yellow" Hollywood producers have a strange view of a lifestyle of ordinary American. Community college adjunct and part-time blogger live in a grand, 4+ bdrm. house.
Another of their biases--correct as I suspect--is that hicks, no matter how friendly they might look (I mean a girl in an apartment complex who "befriends" a heroine and her boyfriend) are all money-hungry thugs inside.
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