Reggi53

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"Reggi53"

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You're never too old to dream.

We're all just "Keeping Up Appearances"

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Sex and the City

Sex and the City (2008)
By Reggi53 in Reggi53 Blog
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"I saw this film last summer with a group of aged 50-plus women. It was entertaining and enjoyable. It is about time Sarah Jessica Parker got a leading lady film role (Hollywood is so prejudiced about what they think we all want to see). So, while we are sitting and talking over dinner, after the film, we naturally turned some discussion to Gilles (it is difficult not to commit him to memory); and we compared our own men and relationships, as well as a waiter. At some point, audiences want to be able to relate to what is depicted in the "larger than life" medium. A neighbor asked me to purchase certain panty that she described by an advertisement of a woman (who looks to still be of child-bearing age) nicely outfitted in a dress on her way out on the town. She could not remember the brand name. It seems as if the article mainly handles the much more common condition that occurs with women, possibly after bearing a child, and then more into their adult years (pre/post menopaus ... " [More]

Sweetie

Sweetie
By Reggi53 in Reggi53 Blog
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"This story becomes more and more complex as well as interesting because Dawn (US) is at her dusk, (in some respects, how Hollywood tends to discredit its women [countries]). So, while she is depicted as a badtempered Little Lotta with an ungraceful, fumbling, uncultured interpretation, even of her own inability to access and/or process media--she hasn't been opportuned with education nor the social graces (contacts, money, looks) to enter media; she is boisterous, wild, lower/working class, unashamed of her body and its natural girth but unhesitant to break into performance (her lifelong love). So we come away with a complex picture of a woman who seemingly shouldn't depict (or be allowed to) her love of music, dance and enjoying life, but should rather be almost closet about it. A lot of the film of the genre coming out of Europe (i.e., Bye-bye Monkey) speak to the love/hate relationship with the United States. At the denouement, Dawn (the monkey) falls from the tree (the bough ... " [More]

Sweetie

Sweetie
By Reggi53 in Reggi53 Blog
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"I saw this film when it was first released here in the US. The characters were well=crafted, and the performances were as well. If memory serves me correctly, the ending of the film is sort of anti-climatic, but I overall enjoyed although, for awhile, I started to wonder about Australian society. I get a lot of lottery mail from them. This film was not a gamble. But she was sort of an over-aged Australian Shirley Temple--she never saw past her youthful notion and, I guess, that's what made her kuku! " [More]