Friday, January 23, 2009

Here is a Movie We Won’t Be Seeing Any Time Soon



It would be like watching Saving Private Ryan before you ship out or The Reader before your war crimes trial.

1 comment:

  1. Thanks for all your hilarious efforts at keeping us informed about your engagement. I’m now just a click away from your romance. The Walla Walla weekend went well and congratulations on finding “the dress.”

    You show good judgement on not seeing “Revolutionary Road.” I don’t want Brian, my husband of 26 years, to even watch the trailer! It would be like seeing “The Squid and the Whale” on Valentine’s Day or “The War of the Roses” on our anniversary.

    And here’s a nostalgic little 1966 movie we won’t be inviting you lovebirds over anytime soon to see with us:

    Title: “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf?”

    Plot: “One literate and profane night in the pathological marriage of two tortured souls. Turning the underbelly of bourgeois academia into a microcosm of human relationships in all their arduous complexities, it's a harrowing descent into the private lives and painful secrets of two couples thrown together for an evening. George is an associate professor of history who has turned to alcohol to deal with his vituperative, vicious wife Martha, whose appetite for administering abuse knows no bounds. Invited to the couple's home for late-night drinks are new professor Nick, and his naive wife Honey, where over the course of the evening, the polished veneer of the hosts tarnishes grotesquely. The witty repartee of consummate sophisticate Martha degenerates into increasingly violent verbal abuse of both her husband and guests, while George's stoic facade crumbles both physically and emotionally. The horrified Nick and Honey initially come off as happier foils to the misery of the older married couple, but the guests are soon mirroring George and Martha in their mutual antagonism, giving voice to buried resentments and alcohol-fueled revelations of repressed injuries. It’s described as “ a lacerating look at an older couple's existence, where the emotional brutalizing fills an unspeakable void at their center, and a troubling preview of what a younger couple's life could become.”

    Sounds fun, huh?

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