hated this movie

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sorry, but i think that the thing is that you dont dare to look inside of yourself as a man, which is the hole point of the movie.

what greenaway has done in the film is a very brave thing: to look himself and disclose his male fantasies. in the dialogue of father and son when they are seeing fellini's 8 1/2 the father ask "how many film directors make movies to satisfize their sexual fantasies?", and after that, the concubine thing starts, and greenaway, just like fellini did in 8 1/2, shows himself whitout shame, saying: "this is my fantasy and probably the fantasy of a lot of men: a court of women out of the comun range that do everything that i may ask to them"

that is the point: the entire movie is a fantasy and a psichoanalytic story. remember that the engine is the mother's dead: both father and son feels liberated whit it, and that is not a thing that everyone is ready to accept (that the own mother's dead may carry goods thing inside). the son must confront his edipic hate to his father after the mother's dead, and what he do is help him both to accept the facts: they are eachother the most closer relatives in the world and they cant break a parts because of the dead.

shows that sex has no age and that behind a old body may be exciting things (quoting palmira) and the exquisit complicity may exist in a father and sonrelationship

and at the same time shows that all that stuff is not enough. whit the use of general takes we appreciate the lonelyness of the characters and whit the close ups we get insite they minds.

well, i could write a lot about this movie, but what im trying to say is that you cant judge it just from a glance, like you can do whit, for example, spielberg movies.

p.d: if i have spelling errors, i must say that im not an english speaker

seriously, why can't a person have and hold their opinion that the movie sucks? who cares if someone hates it? good for them! and if you love it, good for you!

i am so sick and tired of condescending arty types who can't handle it when someone doesn't like what they themselves like. as if it's a personal attack or something. grow up! so this person doesn't like the film. hardly a reason to be a jerk and make rude comments.

i didn't really like the film myself, but am glad i saw it a few times. and i really don't give a rat's pattoot if someone else hates it or loves it. it's not going to take anything away from my personal experience and view of it.