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I must admit cross-dressed Jude Law was my reason for watching Rage, before I realised it was written and directed by Sally Potter who made Orlando. I watched and I was overwhelmed. By cracking through the plastered face of fashion we see absurdity, self-indulgence and exploitation. With excellent acting the film presents different sides of human nature in such a simple set, of which the treatment is discussed as one of its important aspects.

There are a lot of negative comments on IMDb on its flat narration and play-like pretentiousness, and the similarity with dull YouTube videos. On superficiality I personally find the stereotypes amusing. In a decontextualised setting like this, “authenticity” seems irrelevant — though, from one of the positive reviews that I agree with, the slightly over-dramatic performance actually makes the characters more real, since they come from the fashion industry (ha!). The resemblance to personal online broadcast is exactly the point of Rage and why it’s revolutionary in film that goes into cinema, while it still achieves a professional level in visual execution that differentiates it from amateur videos.

This introductory video on Potter helps understanding her influence and exploration of online media in traditional film. Check also the Dusty Wright interview and her website.

Watched All About Love 得閒炒飯 by Ann Hui tonight. Female sensitivity and humour always please you. The film’s quite direct in proposing alternative feminist ideas that carry academic weight; it manages to maintain its taste as popular culture.

Marginalising bisexuals by gays is no different from marginalising homosexuals by heterosexuals.

It is world-saving to make every husband truly please his wife (sexually).

Men do not suffer less than women in a patriarchal society.

*From my memory, not direct quotations.

If we need any religion at all, this would be our religion.

If we need any science to explain love, this would be our evolution.

Love has to be reinvented.

“International” movies…they make the whole world speak English, I almost forgot Rimbaud is French. Poems can never be translated. He’ll be my reason for learning French.

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Patti talked about Rimbaud:

Whenever I read the biography of a young artist—say, Rimbaud—the biographer sits in such judgment of the young person. They talk about how Rimbaud did all these terrible things, like walking around smoking a pipe upside-down or wearing ragged clothes. He was a teenager! How can a biographer sit in judgment of a teenager? That’s how they dress. Those are the pure years when you’re discovering yourself, when you’re trying things out, when you have the arrogance of adolescence. This is a beautiful time, and it has to be judged in accordance with that. You know, I still remember what it tastes like to be 11, 17, 27. I wanted—if I could—to capture that without irony or sarcasm.

I told you I could not quote enough of that interview.

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Is this not ultra-sexy? Who doesn’t want to join her party?

Okay. Lindsay Lohan is my guilty pleasure. There, I admit it. Stalk her if you admit it too.

This movie cracked me up.

Its twin movie seems quite heavy so I didn’t watch…yet.