Post by Boomzilla on Jan 30, 2013 8:06:10 GMT -5
Stanley K did a funny one here... Some consider this a porn movie because of the explicitness. I find it to be the opposite.
In the movie Bill (Tom Cruise) and Alice (Nicole Kidman) are the married couple with problems. Bill has come to see Alice as a wife and mother only. Because of this, Bill no longer finds Alice as exciting as he once did. Bill wants some excitement. Alice is tired of being "just" a wife and mother; she wants some romance.
The party that they both attend at the beginning of the movie, hosted by the devil himself, offers each of them exactly what they want. Alice is romanced by a smarmy Hungarian; Bill meets two models who offer to take him "where the rainbow ends." Both Bill and Alice manage to elude these external threats to their marriage.
After returning home, they fight, and the remainder of the movie is about external threats to their marriage that multiply like rabbits. Alice's Naval officer (whether real or fictional) sparks Bill's distress and his midnight wanderings.
The daughter of Bill's dead patient who kisses him on the lips and asks him to take her, the HIV-positive prostitute whom Bill almost goes for, the costume shop owner's daughter who offers herself to Bill, the promiscuous and crazy devil worshipers (?), and even the gay hotel clerk who flirts with Bill when Bill asks about his piano-playing friend are ALL direct external threats to Bill & Alice's marriage.
In the end, Alice displays wisdom and insight into what she intuitively knows: Although a marriage is formed from trust, respect, and shared experiences, the "glue" that holds the marriage together, the armor that protects the marriage from any and all external threats is the physical relationship. Without the strong physical relationship, all other parts of the marriage are deeply vulnerable.
That's why, in the last word of the movie, Alice informs Bill that all the external threats, real and/or imagined, must be faced by the two of them as a single entity. This is a strangely conservative and "moral" theme for such an explicit movie, but the message is clear.
If you've not seen this movie, I recommend it highly.
Boomzilla
In the movie Bill (Tom Cruise) and Alice (Nicole Kidman) are the married couple with problems. Bill has come to see Alice as a wife and mother only. Because of this, Bill no longer finds Alice as exciting as he once did. Bill wants some excitement. Alice is tired of being "just" a wife and mother; she wants some romance.
The party that they both attend at the beginning of the movie, hosted by the devil himself, offers each of them exactly what they want. Alice is romanced by a smarmy Hungarian; Bill meets two models who offer to take him "where the rainbow ends." Both Bill and Alice manage to elude these external threats to their marriage.
After returning home, they fight, and the remainder of the movie is about external threats to their marriage that multiply like rabbits. Alice's Naval officer (whether real or fictional) sparks Bill's distress and his midnight wanderings.
The daughter of Bill's dead patient who kisses him on the lips and asks him to take her, the HIV-positive prostitute whom Bill almost goes for, the costume shop owner's daughter who offers herself to Bill, the promiscuous and crazy devil worshipers (?), and even the gay hotel clerk who flirts with Bill when Bill asks about his piano-playing friend are ALL direct external threats to Bill & Alice's marriage.
In the end, Alice displays wisdom and insight into what she intuitively knows: Although a marriage is formed from trust, respect, and shared experiences, the "glue" that holds the marriage together, the armor that protects the marriage from any and all external threats is the physical relationship. Without the strong physical relationship, all other parts of the marriage are deeply vulnerable.
That's why, in the last word of the movie, Alice informs Bill that all the external threats, real and/or imagined, must be faced by the two of them as a single entity. This is a strangely conservative and "moral" theme for such an explicit movie, but the message is clear.
If you've not seen this movie, I recommend it highly.
Boomzilla
