I said yesterday that The Bride Stripped Bare is told in first person. That was a big lie. It's actually told in second person, which is pretty unusual and you'd think I would have remembered.
So, this is one of the things that makes the book very personal. All the things described are about you....kinda. I finished it this morning, and it is indeed a wonderful book.
It's still recommended.
My ongoing belly issues have dulled down to a steady and faint ache, and for several hours last night I felt fine. Which was such a welcome surprise I couldn't stop smiling. Let's hope the dull ache is hunger, hey?
I watched Hard Candy and I both liked it and hated it. I am now going to talk about it in a spoilerific way, so if you don't know what happens in this movie and don't want to know, please stop reading now.
It was very well made, well acted and written. However it was also gratuitous and horrible and just too much. I kept thinking 'if the genders were reversed and it was a man torturing a woman and castrating her this movie would never have been made' but then I think that woman are still being castrated in real life in Middle Eastern countries for less pertinent reasons than Hailey has for doing such to Jeff.
That women are constantly being tortured, killed and raped in movies by men for less motivation.
That in some ways this is an important movie simply because it gives a 14 year old girl the power to completely destroy a man. I don't approve of what she did in any sense, and I think the movie perhaps didn't need to go that far, but then mutilation of women in horror and splatter films and on TV (hello Special Victims Unit?) is so very prevalent that it's kind of justified.
So. In summary. Upsetting, interesting psychologically the same way I was drawn to One Hour Photo, Woodsman, Memento and The Machinist although very different from all those films, just as they are different to each other. I don't know if I can recommend this film though. It's a bit too much.
PoF: muscle singlet
CO: will my belly be good to me?