Re: opposite of sex
e w/ love and squalor (evmoore@hotmail.com)
Mon, 09 Nov 1998 14:33:36 -0800 (PST)
WILL HOCHMAN <hochman@uscolo.edu> wrote:
>Last night I viewed "The Opposite of Sex" on videotape and enjoyed the
>narration--the 16-7 year old girl who is the main character and
>narrator of the movie lacks Holden's holiness but has a sassy
>approach to irony and storytelling that had me seeing/thinking Holden
>parallels in no time flat...anyone else see the link?
oh dear. thought it was an incredibly awful movie, actually. christina
ricci was terrifically irritating. i suppose if you want more than just
disappointment that someone actually didn't want to push her off a cliff
by the end of the first scene... i think she's very flippant, which
obscures the sweetness or poignancy of the situations she encounters,
which holden is very aware of. she's also very self-aware as far as
acknowledging her motivations, which allows her to function as a source
of authority, which holden completely isn't. he's pretty clueless. he's
very childish in a lot of ways, and while he may have derision for the
establishment (in whatever form), he always returns to it (mr. antonini,
jane as a familiar figure from home, his family) and definitely lets the
idea stand of selective adults as acceptable figures of authority. i
guess the two could be as much alike as any two unreliable narrators or
angsty, homophobic teens, but that's about it.
yrs
emily
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