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what does the title mean?

posted 15 years ago by ValerinAmberz
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I love this movie but can't say I understand it to the full. I think it's gourgeous with its setting and music. Anyway after seing it a couple of times I've noticed it makes a little more sence than first time I saw it. For example first time I saw it I thought walkens punch came out of the blue, then after seing it again I noticed it didn't. The guys were giving eachother subtle provocations. "a museum dedicated to the old times" is a clear mocking of his parents and everything he stands for. Therefore the punch was logical.

Anyway maybe if someone could explain the title you could easily understand the meaning of the movie....so what does it mean?

well since you're naked you might as well f___ a friend of mine. Paul come in here!

[–] onepotato2 14 years ago

An explanation of the title won't help at all. But here you go.

At the end of the movie A Streetcar Named Desire the aging, 'borderline' cousin (Blanche) of a the Kowalski's (a blue collar couple) finally loses her mind due to Stanley Kowalski's brutish cruelty. As she's escorted out at the end (to the loony bin) she says to two male nurses "whoever you are... I've always depended on the kindness of strangers."

This movie takes that phrase, alters it slightly and riffs on the relationship between beauty (Venice, Colin) and insanity/cruelty. Colin and Mary are offered comfort by two strangers (Robert, Caroline) who eventutally destroy them.

[–] rmiikku 12 years ago

I didn't understand the movie at all. I thought, because of the title, that this movie would be about Walken making somekind of confessions about his father to complete strangers. But the movie really wasn't about that, was it?