Rascal, I don't get how so many people are seeing all this other stuff going on in the movie that just isn't there. In the sense that this film depicts a reality for a few unfortunate people who have fallen through the cracks, it really is a pretty straight forward tale. In another way, it is so startling in its straightforward aspect that people have to come up with these alternate explanations for it to make sense to them. I can probably see why people get kind of confused about the movie because there really is no other movie like "3 Women". I LOVED what you said to me about how the movie doesn't really seem to try to be anything special, but the way everything unfolds is uncannily right.
It would be dismissive to call the movie "realistic" because, as you know, Rascal, it is so much more than that. But, like you'd said to me about Shelley Duvall, the movie goes very, very, very deep with observation. There really are people like Millie and Pinky, yet these people are the ones who go almost completely unnoticed in the world. And what could have been ridiculously boring becomes just the opposite, the movie is absolutely riveting. I guess that's what the OP was maybe trying to say, about the "unreality" of the characters, but suggesting that these psychologically rich characters are not actually real takes away from the movie's spell. Because despite the fact that they may be invisible to the world around them, Millie and Pinky and Willie are only too real...
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rascal67
7 years ago
...it really is a pretty straight forward tale. In another way, it is so startling in its straightforward aspect that people have to come up with these alternate explanations for it to make sense to them. I can probably see why people get kind of confused about the movie because there really is no other movie like "3 Women".
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Exactly Mr. H, and I guess they are looking for a deeper meaning to put a handle on the ending, which can mystify; but oh so beautifully. It doesn't really matter and while the ending can appear ambiguous to many, what unfolds prior, is all pretty straight forward like you have mentioned. the film has an air\aura of enigma about it's atmospheric presentation. I think it is nice that the film has challenged and perplexed many, as that is the true nature of art; but I guess those that aren't so much into the authentic "reality bound" human nature aspects of it's main characters, are attempting to look for something that doesn't exist. This superb character study is about people, first and foremost, especially those that are fringe dwellers and can't quite find a place to fit into the perceived "normalcy" of things.
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