tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5394152446586654355.post8749515324662774775..comments2024-03-21T00:35:42.384-07:00Comments on CRITICAL WOMEN ON FILM: Elegy Movie Review: Penelope Cruz Boob Fetish BluesCritical Women, Prairie Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03939987052158617459noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5394152446586654355.post-24928449331039244692008-08-01T08:23:00.000-07:002008-08-01T08:23:00.000-07:00Tthis film is for men, about men; their failure to...Tthis film is for men, about men; their failure to sustain a meaningful relationship because they tend to be so hung up on what a woman looks like rather than what she says and where she comes from<BR/><BR/>Elegy with all the trappings of a women's move, the love relationship and the powerful male actors, fell short of its promise.<BR/><BR/>Unanswered questions remain: who were Penelope Cruz's friends,<BR/><BR/>what was her life away from Ben Kingsley?<BR/><BR/>what was there aside from his position in life, that she felt drawn to<BR/><BR/>i don't have to ask what the big attraction of her breasts were because Phillip Roth's book "the Breast" tells all and with a mix of that masterpiece, Portnoy's Complaint there is a consistent problem of inability to understand more than half the world's population that permeates seemingly all of Mr.Roth's work<BR/><BR/>With the long pauses viewers were afforded amble opportunity to fill in the blanks; to bring to the film their background, their life experience.<BR/><BR/>For me it afforded another visit with my distant past when my essentially silent husband dominated or tried to, our life <BR/>My question during the last stages of our marriage was, when will this end and how<BR/><BR/><BR/>Those are the same questions I found myself asking as i sat through this tedious vacuous film where there were so few words spoken that even a nap here and there did not detract from its essence I rate this film a 2 because it promised so much and gave so little<BR/><BR/><BR/>linda ZLinda Ziseshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11328605490114268938noreply@blogger.com