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Very strange.
by C (movies profile)
Oct 20, 2006
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22 people found this review helpful
This is a strange movie. It follows Dr. Bill and his wife, Alice's, examination of their love and their relationship, fidelity, sexual yearings, fear, trust, temptation, and just WEIRDNESS.
**Spoilers**
Bill and Alice are on the bed, ready for a night of intimacy. Alice gets stoned, and goes on an irrational speechifying rampage. She lets Bill know that she has fantasized about another man while making love with him. And that she'd dump the entirety of her life with him, dump him, his wealth and social standing, her daughter, for one night of sex with the man she glimpsed in a hotel lobby. Bill is shocked and appalled.
So off he goes on his own dangerous adventures into the night and the seamy underbelly of secret orgies and prostitutes, and lovelorn daughters of patients, homophobic gangs, and other assorted creepy happenstances.
He resists temptation. He comes home, has a breakdown, spills his guts about his nocturnal adventures to Alice, and they both finally realize that there's no place like home. A happy ending!
The movie was visually stunning. It was very slow paced, but held my interest throughout. Nude women were placed everywhere, like colorful christmas lights. And they were just about as erotic.
I like Tom Cruise. A lot. He is very talented, every expression packs a wallup of emotion in his beautiful eyes, and face. I read that he got an ucler during filming. He does a good job, in a role that's not as attractive as say, a Jerry Maguire or a Nathan Algren. Nicole Kidman was good, but her deliberate manner of speech here got on my nerves. Her performance was too "artsy fartsy" for me. The whole movie was pretty "artsy fartsy." (I'm not a Kubrick fan.)
B-. There's better movies to rent out there. |
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