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Wednesday, January 14, 2004
I'm fighting some strange turmoil inside. More on that later...
I went to see "Monster" last night. I wasn't as moved as I expected to be. Granted, I'm still fascinated by the always entrancing Ms. Theron. Her transformation! (and I'm not talking about her physical appearance, since that's over-emphasized in wake of her acting skills) But the fact that she was able to embody an entirely different character than herself and pull it off so convincingly that I forgot what the real Charlize was like. (Not that I'm sure I ever did, thanks to this role) And the story of Aileen Wournos is definitely intriguing.
So why wasn't I impressed as I hoped? Because of the representation of the story. I hate it when Hollywood tries to over-romanticize situations or force a point of view from the audience. I like deciding for myself what's what, and it's rather patronizing for the production staff to spoon-feed me the story as it was. And if I were Selby, I'd be fucking pissed off. *sigh*
I know I would have sympathized with Aileen, no matter how they presented her movie, but it felt awkward and fake to have it seem like a knight-in-dirty-armor romance. Eh.
I feel like I'm having major trouble communicating to those people I love best. It's really hard to struggle within myself because I don't want to confront them, but I'm driving myself crazy. It's not that I expect some sort of magical solution to appear and save me, but I'd like a little help around here, please. Why should I be the only one paddling the boat when we were all dumped into the sea, unexpectedly, you know?
And that's how I feel about that.
11:29 AM
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