25.3.08

Oh, Not Again

I just watched Noah Baumbach's new picture Margot at the Wedding. He makes me really uncomfortable. I don't know why he has to have a scene involving a pre-adolescent boy watching a couple have sex in a neighboring backyard. I do not understand his compulsion to have a condom floating in the toilet as aforementioned boy speaks to his mother. I do not understand why this young boy later told his mom quite frankly that he masturbated the night before while everyone else in the room was sleeping. The same goes for his last movie, The Squid and the Whale which featured a similar pre-adolescent boy chronically masturbating every other scene or so to the sounds of Tangerine Dream's score to Risky Business. It's all very fucking weird and disgusting and uncomfortable and his movies usually leave me retching. I find most of his characters despicable and hardly realistic with the exception of Margot's Malcolm played by Jack Black whom I could quite relate to. Margot however was a drugged out bitch... well-played by Nicole Kidman nonetheless. But next time can't we just cut the crap and leave near-child pornography out of the equation?

1 comment:

Alex said...

Joe, I realized I haven't left you a comment in a while, so I thought I would.

I finally watched Bottle Rocket in its entirety this morning