NP: Audience Wide Asleep

[Keith Woodward]

I was one of those critical audience members, myself.  I wasn't screaming
"Don't go in there" to Tom, I was screaming "Grow up!"  Personally, I
thought the only thing more misogynistic than the premise WAS the film
technique.  Paranoid male fantasy (granted GR could be called the same
thing, but Kubrick's is the Dark Side of the Force).  Don't most men get
over that kind of crap anymore at about seventeen?  She had a fantasy, for
God's sake!  Give me a break!



>On Sun, 18 Jul 1999, Gary Thompson wrote:
>
>> I was close to shouting at Tom Cruise last night not
>> to go into that big house with the limos in front, myself. (A couple of
>> Pynchonian resonances in _Eyes Wide Shut_, starting with the setting in
>> (near?) Glen Cove.) I think that involvement's a measure of our
>> engagement with the text, and acquired critical distance comes with a
>> cost. 
>
Paul wrote:

>The film technique did seem excellent. Enjoyed it. Noticed some  
>in the audience were criticizing it going out. 
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>			P. 
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keith w