I sadly had no warning from my flist. I just checked a wiki of the novel published in 2001, and the film is very faithful to the plot and some of the structural presentation. Just ew that it got so much acclaim and that there is no outcry of "oh, not this tired old misogynist shit again!" no matter how pretty the wrapper. So it's not just the film critics letting us down. If there's been any good feminist criticism of it, it hasn't filtered beyond the academy at all.
Who was your flistmate who posted about it? I'd love to go commiserate.
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Date: 2008-01-25 04:09 pm (UTC)Who was your flistmate who posted about it? I'd love to go commiserate.