Christina Applegate is the perfect super scary b---chy blond but this black comedy takes being in a perpetual bad mood to homicidal levels. Most of this audience will be too young but I kept on getting flashbacks to the sitcom Married with Children. For its time, that show was similarly non-PC, subjecting the then teenage actress to a constant barrage of totally inappropriate sexual innendos combined with dumb blonde jokes. This movie reflects that same moral thin edge, trying to make funny the totally inappropriately cringeworthy, like killing an obnoxious man in a rage because you are at the end of your rope from your dead husbands rejection. Part of you wants to kill the obnoxious, for sure, but finding it funny is just creepy.
This film kind of twists your mind, just like that old sitcom, and I cant decide if its a guilty pleasure or just creepy. Time will tell. Either way, it is clever, incredibly suspenseful, sophisticated, and you can't look away, even when you want to.
It is time to start looking beyond the shock value of cleverness to understand what is and isn't good for the soul. In retrospect the films of Woody Allen, depicting 50 year old men dating the barely legal as the liberal New Yorkers look on with benevolence, should give us pause. So many clever, creative, great story telling powerful men in Hollywood - Weinstein, Cosby, Allen - use us the audience, as dupes, to distract from their illegal, immoral activites. Let's be a bit more selective, folks. Just because its clever and interesting does not mean it can or should cut it in todays world where the rapes and God knows what else have been perpetrated.
This film kind of twists your mind, just like that old sitcom, and I cant decide if its a guilty pleasure or just creepy. Time will tell. Either way, it is clever, incredibly suspenseful, sophisticated, and you can't look away, even when you want to.
It is time to start looking beyond the shock value of cleverness to understand what is and isn't good for the soul. In retrospect the films of Woody Allen, depicting 50 year old men dating the barely legal as the liberal New Yorkers look on with benevolence, should give us pause. So many clever, creative, great story telling powerful men in Hollywood - Weinstein, Cosby, Allen - use us the audience, as dupes, to distract from their illegal, immoral activites. Let's be a bit more selective, folks. Just because its clever and interesting does not mean it can or should cut it in todays world where the rapes and God knows what else have been perpetrated.