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bewilderment posted:So was there a serious reason the movie opened with fat flub bouncing everywhere, or was that just to tell people with children and other 'prudes' (I don't know a better way to say this, it doesn't encompass everything) to get out of the theatre? The entire point of the movie is that Amy Adams' character is a lovely artist whose work expresses little more than banal disgust at 'flyover states'. Her ex-husband, Jake Gyllenhaal, is a hugely superior artist who wrote a 'trashy' airport thriller about rednecks specifically to attack her spiritual emptiness. The novel, Nocturnal Animals, is simplistic in plot but psychologically nuanced in ways Adams can't really comprehend. She perceives the characters in the novel as straightforwardly analogous to their relationship (i.e. that Gyllenhaal badly misses her) - not realizing that Gyllenhaal now identifies with Michael Shannon's character, and ultimately based the rapist villain on her. Adam's desire for some violent disruption to her empty life (hence the amazing Paranormal Activity reference) is what Gyllenhaal targets with pinpoint accuracy.
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Magic Hate Ball posted:How do you relate that to the fat ladies? The entire film is a recontextualization of the opening credits sequence, where you are pushed to (and Adams fails to) reinterpret the artwork on display - the same way Adams suddenly pays attention to the artworks in the gallery, as if for the first time (e.g. Hirst's "Exquisite Pain", the made-for-the-film REVENGE painting, etc.). The point is that, despite being celebrated, Adams' work is just rote blah blah hyperreality and blah blah abjection where she strives to showcase the ugliness and obscenity of American culture. By the end of the film, you hopefully are moving towards something like Ford's own interpretation - that Adams envies her nude models. The monolithic stature of the HD projections is not oppressive, perhaps the figures' deserved place. The entire film is basically about how to read art. In the case of the movie-within-the-movie we're interpreting Adam's interpretation of a book interpreting her relationship with her ex-husband. And the point of the last scene is that she's reached the wrong conclusion. SuperMechagodzilla fucked around with this message at 08:17 on Mar 26, 2017 |
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