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The ending still left me confused. I read an article where the director was interviewed and I know what HE thinks it meant but I disagree with him. 😆
Did Farraday push her? It's so long since I saw this, I can't remember what I was thinking, but I never felt the doctor was completely innocent. He was so odd and needy. I'm almost thinking I DID think he pushed her, being the child stealing the acorn that he couldn't have, killing the girl that he couldn't have. But totally separating himself from the act.
Well, the book ended pretty much the same, with Faraday in the house. No vision of his younger self at the top of the stairs though.
I think the director's explanation of the psyche splitting and causing harm only works with what happened to the mother, the scratches appearing out of nowhere. I think he was responsible for everything. He wanted the house because of his childhood memories, I agreed with that part too. But I think he made sure Roderick was out of the picture, then made the mother think she was crazy (the book was much more detailed about this) and when the engagement to Caroline was ended by her, I think he killed her. She said "You." Both in the book and the movie. I think it was him. No ghost anywhere.
Finally I got to watch: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood - LOVED IT - it was a slow burn, and a really fantastic movie - if you like QT.
I watched Cloud Atlas - it was interesting - I tried to read the book years ago and it confused me. I did read Black Swan Down and actually understood it, but David Mitchell is a little over my head most of the time.
I watched a super cute movie on Netflix: Dumplin' - very cute.
I watched Vast of Night and loved it - my kind of movie.
The Ogre & I have decided to have a Catch up with the Coen Brothers film festival of sorts. We missed a bunch. Last Saturday it was Burn Before Reading - entertaining and odd - just like you'd expect.
Watching it from the perspective of what he might have been though.
It's a brilliant movie, but exhausting... so much emotion.
I had never see this one and found it to be pretty entertaining on the whole.
Some things I found fun:
Steve McQueen and his blue eyes. They made sure they gave Steve plenty of closeups because of those blue eyes they were paying for. Just scenes where we get up close and personal watching him look at things. Had to laugh. Anyone else who may have had pretty blue eyes were not given their close close close-ups. Shot from the side, or they were given glasses to wear, bulky ones, or colored ones. They may have gotten a few seconds of their eyes, but nothing like the long drawn-out, and in the eyeball views we got of Steve's. Can't take away from those Steve blues.
McQueen goes into a corner market and picks up Banquet T.V. dinners. That was a blast from the past. I remember those, and they tasted better than the crap you get today.
All of the hospital scenes were fascinating to see the antiquated way in which we were doctored. Those visuals were all sorts of holy hell.
I found it hilarious that Jacqueline Bissett is in his bed naked, and Steve has on paisley pajamas. Which were quite pretty. I wish I had them. Now, when we first see Steve in his p.j.'s, they are a set and he is alone. When he is with Jackie, we see him from the waist up. We know she's nude, we just know it. But he has his p.j. top on. We assume he has his bottoms on as well. Or, Maybe he didn't have the bottoms on. What a crack up. I guess his chest hair wasn't cooperating that day, or perhaps he had gynecomastia and was hiding it. Who knows.
Steve sets up a meeting to get information from a guy, and instead of just walking out to the sidewalk in front of the cafe where they meet, they have to go clear across the street. It was the director's way of bringing a little bit of edgy raciness to the film by having them stop in front of a poster for almost nude dancers. Big bosomed blonde bombshells with pasties and posed enticingly -- the Marilyn Monroe side nude pose that is famous -- only with pasties on the dancer's boobies. The camera makes sure we see that poster clearly and that Steve, such a man, is standing in front of it. It was advertising The Galaxy.
The famous chase scenes in his mustang that recently sold for big bucks was very good. Going over those hills in San Franscisco. I've been on those hills in a car, and your stomach just drops out from under you. And you go up in the air, you cannot see where you are coming down. It's frightening. That had to be quite a huge undertaking to film that.
Total crack up to see the airport then as compared to now. Times they are a'changin'.
Wiki has a good entry on the movie.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullitt
Overall, not a bad movie. Steve really doesn't have that much dialogue. His eyes do all the talking. I'm sure the studio paid handsomely for them.
I never trusted Robert Vaughn and I still don't, even after I got to the end.
But honestly, they wanted it to feel that the chase was seamless but it was sort of hard when that green VW would be up ahead of them after they just passed it. Of course, like you said, it was San Fran and the 60s, so probably everybody had a green VW and it wasn't the same one.
We'll just go with that.
Robert Duvall
Faye Dunaway
Natasha Richardson
Now, if you look at reviews and comments and ratings of this film, it doesn't do too well. The creatives involved weren't all that happy with it by what I'm seeing. But I really liked this film. A lot.
I saw it when it first came out and I was young. And personal circumstances at the time you read or see anything can make or break your long lasting feelings about something. I found it compelling and I embraced the story then and now. I still think it's worth a look at.
Here's an article about this movie:
https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/03/the-forgotten-handmaids-tale/388514/