April
2006
Reflections on the Reading and the Movies
The part that I liked best about this chapter was learning more about independent film making I find it very interesting how much work goes into them, and most of the time on a small budget.
The first movie that I watched was Jungle Fever (Spike Lee, 1991). I didn’t find this movie very entertaining; in fact I spent almost the time waiting for it to get better. I did like the cast; there were some great actors in this movie. However I didn’t feel that this movie did any of them justice, I feel that it was a stupid plot and the way that it was written was terrible. I was sickened be the way the young daughter would sit up in the morning and listen to her parents having sex, and after her father moved out she told him that she missed the funny sounds that they made. I didn’t think that it had really anything to do with the rest of the movie, and I was totally repulsed by it.
The next movie I watched was Sex, Lies and Videotape (Steven Soderbergh, 1989) I didn’t like this movie that much either. I did however like it better than Jungle Fever. I feel that this movie was mostly about sex, and I found it creepy that he got off on watching women talk about sex. These movies had some similarities, for example the cheating husbands. At least Soderberg left out the raunchy sex scenes.
Denise, I appreciate your critique on Jungle Fever (1991, Spike Lee). I have never seen it, and probably never will, as I am not crazy about Lee’s films. I feel he does the same thing over and over again. His movies do contain a lot of disturbing content, but Lee does this intentially to add impact to the social messages he is conveying throughout his films. I do agree, however, that some of the more distasteful content is unnecessary, and, if I were Black, I do not think I would appreciate the way that Lee portrays my people.
Indeed, sex lies and videotape (1989, Steven Soderbergh) is about sex, but artistically, I think it was well-made. Despite the content, however, I can see why the movie broke new ground the film industry, and feel this was a positive opportunity for independent films. Like yourself, I appreciated that there were no graphic sex scenes. The film was no less “juicy” without such scenes, and to me, this speaks well of Soderbergh’s talent.
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I watched “jungle Fever” also I didn’t like it. I thought it was a boring movie. I didn’t like all the racism in the movie.
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