Home stretch...
Dec. 11th, 2003 03:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpAbout 10 minutes left in the shift.
Assassination Tango got mixed reviews at our place last night. Natalie really didn't like it. I thought the idea of mixing milongueros and murder in one film to be intriguing, but could not shake the feeling that portions of the film were more documentary-like than drama.
Natalie seemed more aware of the older-man/younger-woman gimmick than I was, too. And although I can't say I was consciously identifying with Duvall as the story line had him hit on a younger woman (who, it turns out, is his girlfriend in real life, according to IMDB), I did notice the trick, just as I noticed it when watching Six Days, Seven Nights and Entrapment.
I wonder what's behind it? Sure, I guess most older men may find the concept of becoming sexually involved with a younger woman appealing (although the involvement in Tango is flirtaceous, not sexual, though I may be putting too fine a point on the difference), but at the same time, the idea cannot help, I think, but be off-putting to younger men and basically all women (except for a small segment of young women who, perhaps, are open to the prospect of dating an man old enough to be their father).
All of this presupposes, of course, that I have any idea of what I'm talking about, which is not a lead pipe cinch, in any case.
Cheers...
milonguero: A person whose life revolves around dancing tango and the philosophy of tango.
Assassination Tango got mixed reviews at our place last night. Natalie really didn't like it. I thought the idea of mixing milongueros and murder in one film to be intriguing, but could not shake the feeling that portions of the film were more documentary-like than drama.
Natalie seemed more aware of the older-man/younger-woman gimmick than I was, too. And although I can't say I was consciously identifying with Duvall as the story line had him hit on a younger woman (who, it turns out, is his girlfriend in real life, according to IMDB), I did notice the trick, just as I noticed it when watching Six Days, Seven Nights and Entrapment.
I wonder what's behind it? Sure, I guess most older men may find the concept of becoming sexually involved with a younger woman appealing (although the involvement in Tango is flirtaceous, not sexual, though I may be putting too fine a point on the difference), but at the same time, the idea cannot help, I think, but be off-putting to younger men and basically all women (except for a small segment of young women who, perhaps, are open to the prospect of dating an man old enough to be their father).
All of this presupposes, of course, that I have any idea of what I'm talking about, which is not a lead pipe cinch, in any case.
Cheers...
milonguero: A person whose life revolves around dancing tango and the philosophy of tango.
