So I’d heard about this movie for the last decade but I’d been putting off seeing it because I assumed it was going to just annoy me. Last week, though, I decided to buckle down and bring home a bunch of the movies that I’d been putting off seeing and Hurlyburly was first on my list. It irritated me. Just as I suspected, it was a movie about horrible Los Angeles industry types being horrible to eachother. The thing is, I can understand why the film maker probably made it - it must SUCK having to be surrounded by those people all the time and, since film is a form of creative expression, making a movie is a way to explain how they feel about having to live in that kind of aweful environment. However, I don’t see any reason why anyone ELSE who isn’t in the entertainment industry would possibly need or want to watch it; it’s a movie about a bunch of immature, narcissistic, producers who take advantage of the insecure, desperate women that enter their lives and then need to talk about their feelings in depth. Great. They did a great job of making a movie that accurately portrays how awful people can really be. My problem is this: since people are already like that, how did it benefit me having even more awfulness suddenly injected into my life? But then I probably just need to grow up.
July 21, 2008...1:45 am
Review: Hurlyburly
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