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Dec. 27th, 2010 07:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
darchildreSo, my family and I went to see Black Swan today.
This had been recommended to me as good body horror. And, y'know, the body horror bits were nice. As was the dancing - the film did indeed make me want to watch more ballet.
However. I've never thought of myself as a prude and I generally don't think that I'm the kind of asexual who's repulsed by sex, but that film had way more gratuitous sex, masturbation, and inappropriate public groping than I am in any way comfortable with. And all of it was ugly. There's nothing good about sex in this film, and that's off-putting and nasty. And women are either frigid or sluts, blah blah blah, that's really what I want more of in film.
There is not one likeable character in the film. (Except maybe Lily, but it's hard to tell what's real about her and what isn't.) Everyone is horrible. I wouldn't spend five minutes talking to any one of them. I wish I hadn't spent two hours watching them.
More than anything, the film made me uncomfortable. I don't mind being creeped out or even grossed out, but I don't like claustrophobic movies in which everyone is awful and there's no way out. That's not fun and it's not edifying. It's just awkward and uncomfortable and unprofitable.
I wish I hadn't seen it. I wish I could go wash my brain out.
This had been recommended to me as good body horror. And, y'know, the body horror bits were nice. As was the dancing - the film did indeed make me want to watch more ballet.
However. I've never thought of myself as a prude and I generally don't think that I'm the kind of asexual who's repulsed by sex, but that film had way more gratuitous sex, masturbation, and inappropriate public groping than I am in any way comfortable with. And all of it was ugly. There's nothing good about sex in this film, and that's off-putting and nasty. And women are either frigid or sluts, blah blah blah, that's really what I want more of in film.
There is not one likeable character in the film. (Except maybe Lily, but it's hard to tell what's real about her and what isn't.) Everyone is horrible. I wouldn't spend five minutes talking to any one of them. I wish I hadn't spent two hours watching them.
More than anything, the film made me uncomfortable. I don't mind being creeped out or even grossed out, but I don't like claustrophobic movies in which everyone is awful and there's no way out. That's not fun and it's not edifying. It's just awkward and uncomfortable and unprofitable.
I wish I hadn't seen it. I wish I could go wash my brain out.
