**insignificant spoilers**
I caught this movie on one of them Encore channels (Love, I think). It is obviously a made for TV movie, which I realized about 15 minutes into it and decided to keep watching regardless of the failure to deliver on the promising plot (housewife has numerous sexual fantasies that drive her crazy).
First and foremost, the point which I am convinced this movie makes (rather purposefully or not, most likely not) is to stress the importance of masturbation for women too. Now if you aren't that kind of girl, then don't worry about it. But, in this movie it's pretty obvious that she would save herself a lot of problems if she decided to act out these fantasies by herself, if you know what I'm saying.
Like I said in the header, this cheesy, badly-written movie has many good ideas that really make you think: The importance of paying attention to your significant other, even after so many years of marriage. The real possibility of growing apart as you grow older. The significant change one could have from being a free, careless spirit to being an ambitious, career-driven, blue-and-brown suit wearer (you grow up and you calm down and you're working for the clampdown). But, of course, the biggest point is coming to terms with yourself and stop ignoring and shying away from who you are, because it only makes things worse. If you're husband isn't satisfying you and you can't control them urges, then you probably need some alone time (do I need to add: wink, wink). Being a male it has at least made me think about growing older (my lowering of hormones, and the girl who hopefully will be my wife at the time will gain them as is natural in growing old). It reminds that I'm gonna have to work harder at it some 15 years from now, and if I can't live up to her needs, then I should encourage her to do what I do now to keep MYself from going crazy.
Well I've said the good, here's the bad: This movie is hokey. You'd expect if you had fantasies that made you go crazy and hallucinate and cause paralyzing daydreams, then you'd probably be having some crazy fantasies. But her fantasies are really trite. Wow, you're day-dreaming about another muscle-bound guy with perfect teeth and good hair. What? Come on, this was made in the 80's, the time period where you, finally, could've gotten away with putting a lot more spice in your movies. I spent the movie waiting for her to fantasize about someone else; being an American I was already bored with all the other guys she dreamt about. Why not that black guy? Why not a woman? Well, okay, now I'm letting too much of my guy out, but is it too much to ask that maybe she has an interesting fantasy?
The other irritating part is that, for the benefit of story-telling purposes, the characters had to be extra-stupid and helpless. "I can't control my fantasies! What do I do? I'm so alone and frightened!" Why was she frightened? Is she frightened of the fantasies becoming reality? Is she scared that she prefers fantasy over reality and she doesn't want to be like that? If she has such a problem, why does she put such little effort into solving her problem? She's just a helpless poor girl? Is that it? And the dude in the movie is at times just as bad. Jeez, could you ignore her just a little more? Isn't it obvious she has a problem? You end up feeling bad for the guy by default. Sure he does have a large role to play in her having problems, but she just gets stupid by the end of the movie and it becomes obvious that she cares about his emotions and problems even less than he cares about hers. Combine this with the fact that she messes around with numerous other guys and doesn't even stop after he finally catches her and we have to feel bad for the guy, even though he has a lot of faults of his own. He goes through enough of her crap that, in the last 20 minutes or so of the movie, we are waiting in rabid anticipation for him to lose his mind and explode on her. Honestly, I don't condone domestic violence, but by the end of the movie I was screaming at the television for him to knock her stupid *ss across the room and if it were me in that position, person-to-person (instead of man-to-woman), I would've punched her right in the face. Fact of the matter is it would be hard for ANYbody to feel sorry for this woman. Is she really a terrible person? No, she's just an idiot, an intolerable idiot.
But like I said before, there's many good reasons to watch this movie. None of it have anything to do with the movie itself, just the ideas involved in the movie. Just like there are plenty of fantastic movies out there with no real thought-provoking ideas (Quentin Tarantino movies come to mind), there are plenty of terrible movies with some thought-provoking ideas which should be watched too. This is one of them.
I caught this movie on one of them Encore channels (Love, I think). It is obviously a made for TV movie, which I realized about 15 minutes into it and decided to keep watching regardless of the failure to deliver on the promising plot (housewife has numerous sexual fantasies that drive her crazy).
First and foremost, the point which I am convinced this movie makes (rather purposefully or not, most likely not) is to stress the importance of masturbation for women too. Now if you aren't that kind of girl, then don't worry about it. But, in this movie it's pretty obvious that she would save herself a lot of problems if she decided to act out these fantasies by herself, if you know what I'm saying.
Like I said in the header, this cheesy, badly-written movie has many good ideas that really make you think: The importance of paying attention to your significant other, even after so many years of marriage. The real possibility of growing apart as you grow older. The significant change one could have from being a free, careless spirit to being an ambitious, career-driven, blue-and-brown suit wearer (you grow up and you calm down and you're working for the clampdown). But, of course, the biggest point is coming to terms with yourself and stop ignoring and shying away from who you are, because it only makes things worse. If you're husband isn't satisfying you and you can't control them urges, then you probably need some alone time (do I need to add: wink, wink). Being a male it has at least made me think about growing older (my lowering of hormones, and the girl who hopefully will be my wife at the time will gain them as is natural in growing old). It reminds that I'm gonna have to work harder at it some 15 years from now, and if I can't live up to her needs, then I should encourage her to do what I do now to keep MYself from going crazy.
Well I've said the good, here's the bad: This movie is hokey. You'd expect if you had fantasies that made you go crazy and hallucinate and cause paralyzing daydreams, then you'd probably be having some crazy fantasies. But her fantasies are really trite. Wow, you're day-dreaming about another muscle-bound guy with perfect teeth and good hair. What? Come on, this was made in the 80's, the time period where you, finally, could've gotten away with putting a lot more spice in your movies. I spent the movie waiting for her to fantasize about someone else; being an American I was already bored with all the other guys she dreamt about. Why not that black guy? Why not a woman? Well, okay, now I'm letting too much of my guy out, but is it too much to ask that maybe she has an interesting fantasy?
The other irritating part is that, for the benefit of story-telling purposes, the characters had to be extra-stupid and helpless. "I can't control my fantasies! What do I do? I'm so alone and frightened!" Why was she frightened? Is she frightened of the fantasies becoming reality? Is she scared that she prefers fantasy over reality and she doesn't want to be like that? If she has such a problem, why does she put such little effort into solving her problem? She's just a helpless poor girl? Is that it? And the dude in the movie is at times just as bad. Jeez, could you ignore her just a little more? Isn't it obvious she has a problem? You end up feeling bad for the guy by default. Sure he does have a large role to play in her having problems, but she just gets stupid by the end of the movie and it becomes obvious that she cares about his emotions and problems even less than he cares about hers. Combine this with the fact that she messes around with numerous other guys and doesn't even stop after he finally catches her and we have to feel bad for the guy, even though he has a lot of faults of his own. He goes through enough of her crap that, in the last 20 minutes or so of the movie, we are waiting in rabid anticipation for him to lose his mind and explode on her. Honestly, I don't condone domestic violence, but by the end of the movie I was screaming at the television for him to knock her stupid *ss across the room and if it were me in that position, person-to-person (instead of man-to-woman), I would've punched her right in the face. Fact of the matter is it would be hard for ANYbody to feel sorry for this woman. Is she really a terrible person? No, she's just an idiot, an intolerable idiot.
But like I said before, there's many good reasons to watch this movie. None of it have anything to do with the movie itself, just the ideas involved in the movie. Just like there are plenty of fantastic movies out there with no real thought-provoking ideas (Quentin Tarantino movies come to mind), there are plenty of terrible movies with some thought-provoking ideas which should be watched too. This is one of them.