Designing Woman
Posted: February 6th, 2010, 6:39 pm
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I haven't seen this since I was a teenager and boy have my values changed since then :!: :!: :!:
It's supposed to be a comedy, and I know that, and your sense of humor is expected to allow you to accept the foolish things that happen. Well, I can accept that silly Max sleeping with his eyes open, and I can accept falling in love in the space of a week, and I can accept dumping a plate of ravioli into your ex-boyfriends lap. I can handle all of that but in the last sentence above, the key word was ex-boyfriend, and that is where I draw the line. I like Lauren Bacall, and I like her even more since reading her book, she seems like a real person you might meet at a cafe and strike up a conversation with. I've also always thought Gregory Peck was special, and the thought of the two of them together seemed superior, especially since it helped Lauren while Bogey was literally dying in front of her face. My problem is, I've never understood jealousy, I know how and what it is and happens, but this whole film is based on her finding a photo of his old girlfriend, at his apartment which he has not been in for three weeks, during which time they met and married. In point of fact, she found it in pieces on the floor, and through the rest of the movie, she put him through heck about it and for what? He never told her he lived in a monastery until they met, nor was he studying for the priesthood, so why would it be so unusual to find photos of another woman around?
I like comedy and I'm willing to let my inhibitions go in order to enjoy a good laugh, but when my logical, sensitive, moral, and mature senses are attacked, I have a hard time finding the fun in it. One short scene of silly jealousy with her giving him a hard time would have been okay, but the entire rest of the movie was about it, and that is too much.
Well, I guess I'll have to ask this forum before deciding to check out a comedy.
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I haven't seen this since I was a teenager and boy have my values changed since then :!: :!: :!:
It's supposed to be a comedy, and I know that, and your sense of humor is expected to allow you to accept the foolish things that happen. Well, I can accept that silly Max sleeping with his eyes open, and I can accept falling in love in the space of a week, and I can accept dumping a plate of ravioli into your ex-boyfriends lap. I can handle all of that but in the last sentence above, the key word was ex-boyfriend, and that is where I draw the line. I like Lauren Bacall, and I like her even more since reading her book, she seems like a real person you might meet at a cafe and strike up a conversation with. I've also always thought Gregory Peck was special, and the thought of the two of them together seemed superior, especially since it helped Lauren while Bogey was literally dying in front of her face. My problem is, I've never understood jealousy, I know how and what it is and happens, but this whole film is based on her finding a photo of his old girlfriend, at his apartment which he has not been in for three weeks, during which time they met and married. In point of fact, she found it in pieces on the floor, and through the rest of the movie, she put him through heck about it and for what? He never told her he lived in a monastery until they met, nor was he studying for the priesthood, so why would it be so unusual to find photos of another woman around?
I like comedy and I'm willing to let my inhibitions go in order to enjoy a good laugh, but when my logical, sensitive, moral, and mature senses are attacked, I have a hard time finding the fun in it. One short scene of silly jealousy with her giving him a hard time would have been okay, but the entire rest of the movie was about it, and that is too much.
Well, I guess I'll have to ask this forum before deciding to check out a comedy.
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