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i thought it was amazing (spoilers)

posted 11 years ago by rxqueeen
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I am a fan of Emily Browning, i like her taste in films, classy 1940s to 1970s erotic style with artsy concept. Lucy was dead inside, it is all summarized as the old man that died next to her said on the first time she slept with him, that entire story about a man who couldnt live because he was unable to accept his past, that is exactly the situation of Lucy,her near death experience causes her to wake up, like the old man said also, which means she might start to do something meaningful this time, the old man on her video sleeping beside her while dead seems traumatic enough to get her to want to live again.. Since all her life has just been, passive. It shows that the feeling the old man describes is the same for all, rich and the poor. the past will always haunt people, and only in near death experiences do ppl want to live again. the message is, to not wait for that kind of experience and do it decisively.

[–] Infestar 10 years ago

Not what I got from that ending at all.

I saw her screaming because she hated herself. Hated her life. If she changes now I don't care. Who is she anyway? The movie makers didn't give me enough about her to care. Her boyfriend dies. She goes on like it makes no difference.

I'd have preferred if the makers had started the movie like they ended it. Now she has to make a choice. What does she do? That would be interesting.

[–] Bello-4 10 years ago

You might've thought it was "amazing" and that's fine, but I thought it was a disjointed uninteresting mess. It's the type of film, whether you see it in the theaters or rent it for home viewing, that you have to push through just to see if somehow it pulls it out in the end (which this movie didn't).

What should've been a study in a sexual alterative, the opposite of say BDSM, instead leaves us grabbing at exactly why of all things she's doing this? I mean she needs money presumably for a place to live and studies, okay so do what any other beautiful girl would do which would be role play or companionship. But she goes to the extreme of allowing herself to be sedated, fondled and whatever else for the sake of what? Money?

It would've been a much more entertaining film if say, she was in a class that studied deviant ways of thinking (such as she's going into psycho therapy) and she's found an in to gather info for a theses. But while only intending to scratch the surface, she's been offered an opportunity to become the next Sleeping Beauty and is intrigued. Then find it suits her more to experience it, the benefits financially and the consequences potentially mentally, rather than just to be a med student analyzing it...

That would've made a much better story as we could gone inside the culture that accepts this way of life and see whether or not she becomes it over the mess we got, art house film or not.