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Not Plain Jane, have you considered that maybe the reason students aren't offended is because they don't know that much about Japanese culture themselves?
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Totally! The college where I teach is loaded with a number of international students, most of whom are from Asian countries (Japan, China, Korea and Taiwan) and some from Eastern Europe, Middle East and so on. That's why I was surprised that they weren't more open to debate. It could be a cultural thing, because they might not feel it's appropriate. But I find a lot of the Japanese students very "open" to different views and maybe that's why they didn't mind? Anyhow, just thought it was kind of interesting. I know that
LIT has been critiqued for its portrayal of stereotypes.
Re: Fraser's bio - not suggesting one
should have to read the book; just suggesting that it could be one reason why I feel like I get where she was coming from because it kind of mirrors the book's sympathetic portrayal, so no doubt that's what Sofia was trying to capture. Sometimes that's the problem with adaptations - it's difficult to "say" in 2 hrs what a book has 500 pages to say!
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You aren't supposed to like every character, but consider how their environment creates people who project themselves as unlikeable, even in most cases they are incredibly dissatisfied with their life. The films of hers I appreciate the most are The Virgin Suicides and Lost In Translation.
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Agree about the "environment" and how it shapes people; and I also think it's true she doesn't necessarily want us to fully identify with one character in all of her films - that's especially true in
Somewhere, perhaps, where the protagonist is a jerk. But then his daughter shows up and the "slowburn", to quote
Phuel, begins.
Agree, too, about her strongest work being in those 2 films, although visually
Marie Antoinette is pure scopophillia! Lust of the eyes
It's almost eye candy for me on the level of a Bollywood film.
BTW, how'd you get your hands on a copy of
Bling Ring? If you can't share, that's fine, but just curious.
