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ELLE IS A FLOP--let's admit it!!

posted 7 years ago by louehp
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This is the worse movie i've seen in 2016!!! It makes me think that the
theme of rape treated by a man is just not doable--unless he has
himself been raped!! NO RAPED WOMAN GOES TO DINNER AND ANNOUNCES matter-of-factly pass me the bottle of wine and by the way i just got raped. It often takes weeks, months, or years to recover. No woman in her right mind is going to put a sexy outfit and be in the mood for sex--it just does not understand the psychology and impact on the person. The person is broken and needs to gather her senses--she doesn't go to dinner with friends!! What kind of nonsense is that??
I came out of this movie upset, because i thought that is the line of conduct that is prescribed for the women to come??? (Below is the comment i made to the filmmaker's page in French) I rushed to see the movie as i have always loved Huppert Djian and i did love Basic Instinct that was smartly made.
Here it is made entertainment--it had nothing to do with Basic Instinct : that was a top movie.
ELLE is a flop--with a lot of money and bad taste backing it...
This 'coldness of being' is setting an example for the
youth; let's not forget it.
No one wants to make friends with the
rapist--even if it is to take a revenge. It just sounds off--the whole
movie!!!
What message for girls?? Is this the future that we reserve for women--to act like a man, to emulate him in his violence??)
Careful what you feed the youth: they might re-serve it to you someday..
In a nutshell-it pisses me off that we finance such garbage!!

LM ARNAL, writer

[–] purplebear17 7 years ago

It would be better if is wasn't made by the jerk who made showgirls.

[–] Vicenzo-VV 7 years ago

No woman in her right mind

You realize Michele is possibly a sociapath right?

"Yeah, well, that's just, like, your opinion, man..."

[–] naples-884-346409 7 years ago

Louehp,

you don't understand the movie at all.

Please see it again.

Watch some Bunuel before.

And check what 'satire' means.

This movie is not a representative 'case study' about rape.

It's a very specific story about a very specific and complicated woman.

[–] cbnspanky2 7 years ago

Yes to all of this. The OP is taking this at face value.

[–] sillyhat 7 years ago

By definition, it is clearly not a flop - it has received considerable critical acclaim and Isabelle Huppert won a Golden Globe for it.

[–] alien_alex37 7 years ago

woow critical acclaim! because they're always right!

this movie was a huge disappointment for me.. so cliche with the son killing the rapist at the end. come on. another shock value sexploitation, feel like there hasn't been a high profile one for a while so everyone thinks its fresh.

let's finish this the old navy way, first one to die LOSES! - Lloyd Bridges

[–] doomguy93 7 years ago

Um, you seem to have missed all of the subtext of the film. Actually, it's not even very subtextual. Michele is a nut too, that's made quite plain throughout the film. Also, this film was not a flop. It's still playing in theaters and the DVD/BD is a couple weeks away. It won a Golden Globe. The auditorium was packed when I went to see it and it was quite a diverse crowd, there were even old ladies there. Which brings me to my next point: this film is not "corrupting" the youth because this is not a film for the youth. Nobody is "feeding" the youth anything because the youth do not watch arthouse movies. I can't see teenagers saying, "Hey, wanna go see this French arthouse flick by a director who hasn't directed an English-language movie since 2000?" to their friends.

It's one of only maybe two good films released in the past year, and that's accounting for the fact that I think this is one of Verhoeven's weaker entries. I do think it was pretty predictable and didn't have that "OH SHAT!!" factor that say, Black Book had, or even Basic Instinct upon your very first viewing.