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From: penny Category: Art Date: 27 July 2008 Time: 04:44 AM Review: Going to the cinema seems so easy when you can't - it seems like there are many films that are really good and worth the 2 hours of life that they swallow. In fact it isn't. Most of the films are uninspiring, or if they are the other person has seen them already. Viewing times are also a problem, that wasting of time before a film, the hour and a half to do nothing but kick dirt around and hate the ugly mass of Saturday night revellers. I was in a particularly misanthropic mood last night. I find it particularly easy to hate people who I worry are similar to me, so refuge in the cinema seemed like a good option. Priceless was ok, and I let out a little laugh now and again, slightly embarrassed that I was laughing at such crap, reduced to this childish nonsense. May be you know the story, but my take on it (in slightly exaggerated form) is that it concludes that a woman must always be good looking, this might help her get a rich husband, it doesn't matter if she is poor. A man doesn't have to be good looking, in the end he doesn't have to be rich. The only and most important thing about a man is that he is a man. There are lots of shots of Toutou showing off her gorgeous body, and though they may try and reverse the roles - (the young guy goes out with rich older woman) the camera just doesn't treat the two young gold diggers in the same way. The film attempts to show how exploitative relationships exist where money can buy beauty and youth. Reversing the roles assuages our fears that this dynamic is sexist, here money is clearly shown to be the corrupting force. However sexism runs deeper than the story. We can make our selves feel better by showing how the men are also objects that can be bought and sold- but the way things are filmed betrays the truth.