Cinemon Girl has MOVED!!
15 years ago
Sunday, November 8, 2009
So sad. So sad.
SEE.
Whatever you would like to see. How am I gonna stop you? This is the end of my blog for now.
Thanks for the movies!
Monday, November 2, 2009
Amelia-Hilary Swank, Richard Gere
Director-Mira Nair
SEE.
I don't know why I bother. Over and over. I don't know much about Amelia Earhart. Still. And I saw the movie. I don't really like Amelia Earhart. And I saw the movie. I guess her father was an alcoholic who disappointed her. I mean Amelia (Hilary Swank) tells us this so I guess it must be true. Ah, Mira, how nice it would have been to see that disappointment instead of hearing about it. Maybe we could have shown a little more emotion behind Amelia's desire to fly (a pretty risky proposition at the time for men or women.) Maybe we could have outlined how a Kansas girl came to acquire all the technical knowledge required to fly planes in an era where flying not the norm. Maybe we could have shown more of the lady balls it must have take to take on the nature, gravity and the status quo. But, no. People pick and choose what parts of the story are important. I can't blame them for my failure to love the movie. But, I do.
For me, as an audience member, the most important part of this story is not the mystery of Amelia Earhart's disappearance, but what women in aviation lost by her disappearance. Hell, not just women in aviation but all women aspiring to break barriers. Her flights across the Atlantic and her women's flying races were not just publicity stunts. They were opportunities for women (who only received the right to vote in 1919) to dream of opportunities for themselves that they may never have imagined. That is what was lost when Amelia Earhart disappeared. The role model that gave inspiration to women to take risks and not let the "proper role" of women limit them. Sadly, we aren't given enough of that message in this film. Instead we're dragged through a lifetime of people cheating on each other as a means to connect us emotionally to Amelia. Ah, if only she'd survived, she would have made it work with her husband and backer, George Putnam (who divorced his wife to be with Earhart.) This line of storytelling only serves to obscure Earhart's drive and gumption. Ignored are her unconventional upbringing, her egalitarian view of marriage and work and her fairly groundbreaking feminism. Shame on a female director for robbing the audience of all of that.
EAT.
Um...19 hours non-stop to cross the Atlantic? No in-flight bathroom? Are you kidding me? Turbulence and bad weather would be the least of the pilot's worries. Nobody eats. Nobody drinks.
SHOP.
Director-Mira Nair
SEE.
I don't know why I bother. Over and over. I don't know much about Amelia Earhart. Still. And I saw the movie. I don't really like Amelia Earhart. And I saw the movie. I guess her father was an alcoholic who disappointed her. I mean Amelia (Hilary Swank) tells us this so I guess it must be true. Ah, Mira, how nice it would have been to see that disappointment instead of hearing about it. Maybe we could have shown a little more emotion behind Amelia's desire to fly (a pretty risky proposition at the time for men or women.) Maybe we could have outlined how a Kansas girl came to acquire all the technical knowledge required to fly planes in an era where flying not the norm. Maybe we could have shown more of the lady balls it must have take to take on the nature, gravity and the status quo. But, no. People pick and choose what parts of the story are important. I can't blame them for my failure to love the movie. But, I do.
For me, as an audience member, the most important part of this story is not the mystery of Amelia Earhart's disappearance, but what women in aviation lost by her disappearance. Hell, not just women in aviation but all women aspiring to break barriers. Her flights across the Atlantic and her women's flying races were not just publicity stunts. They were opportunities for women (who only received the right to vote in 1919) to dream of opportunities for themselves that they may never have imagined. That is what was lost when Amelia Earhart disappeared. The role model that gave inspiration to women to take risks and not let the "proper role" of women limit them. Sadly, we aren't given enough of that message in this film. Instead we're dragged through a lifetime of people cheating on each other as a means to connect us emotionally to Amelia. Ah, if only she'd survived, she would have made it work with her husband and backer, George Putnam (who divorced his wife to be with Earhart.) This line of storytelling only serves to obscure Earhart's drive and gumption. Ignored are her unconventional upbringing, her egalitarian view of marriage and work and her fairly groundbreaking feminism. Shame on a female director for robbing the audience of all of that.
EAT.
Um...19 hours non-stop to cross the Atlantic? No in-flight bathroom? Are you kidding me? Turbulence and bad weather would be the least of the pilot's worries. Nobody eats. Nobody drinks.
SHOP.
Skip the movie if you want to know Amelia Earhart, read the books. Soar over to http://www.ameliaearhart.com/shopping/.
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