Well, I sort of expected something a little different, but what I did get was pretty good anyway. I expected her to be clawing her way to the top through lies, trickery, deceit, and murder. She was clawing her way to the top, but she really did not seem to get anywhere.
This movie is about an obsessed woman named Susan. She is obsessed with being on television, and will do anything to get there. We are not sure if she went all the way with one television producer, but as far as she gets is a small cable channel in her home town. She has dreams of Hollywood, but she never really gets there, and I think that this is the main thrust of the movie - the fact that she is obsessed with something that she can never have.
The movie is told from the point of view of the characters looking back. It begins with the death of Susan's husband, and the characters look back to see how this happened. Her husband's parents had connections in the mafia, which is a very bad thing when it came to her lies and deceit to get her off of the murder charge.
She is a smart girl, but she is obsessed with one thing so much that she will kill for it. At first she seems to love this guy immensely, but as the movie drags on, she becomes more distant from him in pursuit of her goal - to the point that when he tells her to give up, he is no longer somebody whom she can look up to. He goes from being an encouraging friend to an arch-enemy.
This is a somewhat strange film, but it has been crafted well. I haven't seen many movies by Gus Van Sant, but after seeing the brilliance of My Own Private Idaho, I decided that I liked his work and will generally take an interest in movies that I know that he has made. This movie does not change my mind about him, but rather strengthens my view that he is an above average filmmaker.
This movie is about an obsessed woman named Susan. She is obsessed with being on television, and will do anything to get there. We are not sure if she went all the way with one television producer, but as far as she gets is a small cable channel in her home town. She has dreams of Hollywood, but she never really gets there, and I think that this is the main thrust of the movie - the fact that she is obsessed with something that she can never have.
The movie is told from the point of view of the characters looking back. It begins with the death of Susan's husband, and the characters look back to see how this happened. Her husband's parents had connections in the mafia, which is a very bad thing when it came to her lies and deceit to get her off of the murder charge.
She is a smart girl, but she is obsessed with one thing so much that she will kill for it. At first she seems to love this guy immensely, but as the movie drags on, she becomes more distant from him in pursuit of her goal - to the point that when he tells her to give up, he is no longer somebody whom she can look up to. He goes from being an encouraging friend to an arch-enemy.
This is a somewhat strange film, but it has been crafted well. I haven't seen many movies by Gus Van Sant, but after seeing the brilliance of My Own Private Idaho, I decided that I liked his work and will generally take an interest in movies that I know that he has made. This movie does not change my mind about him, but rather strengthens my view that he is an above average filmmaker.