tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7069240801305189913.post1381701612607328274..comments2024-03-10T04:30:42.998-07:00Comments on Dave's Movie Site: Movie Review: The PaperboyDave Van Houwelingenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02675792024957939574noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7069240801305189913.post-74489469628387326402013-09-16T12:02:14.339-07:002013-09-16T12:02:14.339-07:00I admired the visual look of the film as well - as...I admired the visual look of the film as well - as a director, Daniels does nothing half way, and that includes the look with is appropriately grainy and luridm, and feels like a '70s exploitation film. And Kidman is wonderful as Charlotte - one of the best performances of last year actually. It is far from a perfect film - it has a multitude of flaws - but I have to give the movie this - it's stuck with more than most movies I saw 11 months ago.Dave Van Houwelingenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02675792024957939574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7069240801305189913.post-61226751955334122032013-09-16T11:36:14.368-07:002013-09-16T11:36:14.368-07:00It was strange, and violent, and very good. It go...It was strange, and violent, and very good. It got into the mind of the deep, deep south. That certain sense of random violence and sexuality and repression most northerners (or for that matter southerners, would not attempt to understand... while at the same time caricaturing the hell out of. This movie got the darkness, and the sexuality. Kidman doesn't just play trash. She plays a woman who has, I would only presume, a very dark past and somewhere down deep feels the over riding desire to be wanted sexually, and for that matter abused sexually, to be the one true way to channel her self worth and complete experience. I don't believe that she is really stupid, or much in the way of what today's dikeish, at times almost genderless southern trash so often are. Rather, she is like a madam to the whores of her own mind and whim, which seem as versatile as anything else in the dark swamp in which this film throws the viewer. My only complaint. Get that damn boy to put on some britches. No body should be wearing their underwear that much. I have my doubts about a few other things as well, but over all this film can't be dismissed. I am so glad they used the grainy look of film during the period. It really gets to the modern south at one of it's darkest periods. It is like a old snake that has been hit with a stick and run off to hide.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com