tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8896069787782846811.post7193338528807078554..comments2023-04-30T07:27:54.645-07:00Comments on <b>HUNGRY GHOST BLOG</b>: Good grief...David Chutehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05606470667042155559noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8896069787782846811.post-85600538022960583342012-05-23T12:16:15.574-07:002012-05-23T12:16:15.574-07:00More like, Hannah isn't sure herself how she f...More like, Hannah isn't sure herself how she feels, and Dunham isn't in any hurry to force her to decide.David Chutehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05606470667042155559noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8896069787782846811.post-30495963607946534292012-05-23T11:08:49.230-07:002012-05-23T11:08:49.230-07:00What's the opposite of 'magnetic'? &qu...What's the opposite of 'magnetic'? "Repulsive" comes to mind.... Not a judgement on the actor, of course, quite the opposite..<br /><br />The most compelling point that the critic makes -- that we shouldn't be so sexually normative as to assume that Hannah doesn't enjoy being abused -- may make some question their ideas of morality. Doesn't work for me I have to say.Tulkinghornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12380273659057130770noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8896069787782846811.post-36993088734352659072012-05-23T09:40:43.096-07:002012-05-23T09:40:43.096-07:00I think the actor is quite good. The critic is try...I think the actor is quite good. The critic is trying to help us understand that something fairly complicated is going on in those scenes, if we are so inclined.David Chutehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05606470667042155559noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8896069787782846811.post-22796376071334292052012-05-22T18:01:42.350-07:002012-05-22T18:01:42.350-07:00The NYRB writer finds Adam Driver to be 'magne...The NYRB writer finds Adam Driver to be 'magnetic'...Tulkinghornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12380273659057130770noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8896069787782846811.post-20232137930805753052012-05-22T15:49:50.124-07:002012-05-22T15:49:50.124-07:00I think the shallowness of the characters is kind ...I think the shallowness of the characters is kind of the point; and her character is the biggest target. Rather like saying you don't like WC Fields' movies because his characters are drunken assholes?<br /><br />OTOH, I might be willing to give it too much credit because I'm taking it partly as an anthropological view of an alien species: Kids today! (Imagine being 62 when "Chilly Scenes of Winter" came out.) And there are some observations of behavior I can't recall ever seeing before, which is nothing to sneeze at.David Chutehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05606470667042155559noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8896069787782846811.post-52855401810618331272012-05-22T14:28:34.628-07:002012-05-22T14:28:34.628-07:00Well, it's much more reflective of the concern...Well, it's much more reflective of the concerns of media center tastemakers than, say, Justified...<br /><br />Other than its zeitgeisty resonance, I'm not sure, by the way, that it's really particularly good. <br /><br />Not much range, seems to me... There are surely more things of interest in the world than the tendency of nice girls to like abusive assholes. Hannah's character seems to me to be a bit arbitrary and a little tedious. Not much evidence of cultural engagement there -- either big C culture or little c culture. <br /><br />You can laugh at Godard, but at least his characters identify themselves against their culture -- even if they're gangsters. <br /><br />A superficially cultural artifact that is, in fact, completely a-cultural.Tulkinghornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12380273659057130770noreply@blogger.com