tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30487573.post2154625179645847488..comments2024-03-28T16:47:27.333-05:00Comments on Acidemic - Film: Born to be ChildlessErich Kuerstenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02850572368098319317noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30487573.post-89616993827448535702019-07-07T01:27:47.192-05:002019-07-07T01:27:47.192-05:00a shattering film but for me,Burton's performa...a shattering film but for me,Burton's performance is the one,the one for the ages. Emasculated but with his rage intact,he has the secret weapon about the little bugger that undoes even Martha.Dalehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17050780812342957714noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30487573.post-86295099299006973332012-04-21T17:29:01.037-05:002012-04-21T17:29:01.037-05:00Burton's peformance is, I realized on a millio...Burton's peformance is, I realized on a millionth viewing, a slow burn fuse - he's only passive at the beginning when they're preparing to what he thinks is going to bed, another pair of tired old faculty people. But once the hard drinking and jealous threat perception take hold he gradually spreads out his Mephistophelean wings... There's several moments when they almost call it a draw but then she pushed another button and he escalates as she does. His performance is so larger than life I think you can read it a lot of ways, ala your perceptive Tin Drum comment, but I think he put a bit of gradual escalation, some good ebb and flow - he is a bit passive, but he's learned you have to pick your attacks and retreats with Martha, who seems to have boundless feral energy. He's the only thing close to a worthy opponent she can find.Erich Kuerstenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02850572368098319317noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30487573.post-46976376981247960492012-04-21T00:29:30.213-05:002012-04-21T00:29:30.213-05:00I like this piece, especially for the phrase, &quo...I like this piece, especially for the phrase, "torrents of Taylor". I don't actually think I've ever seen the movie drunk! But I did see it for the first time skipping school on an afternoon showing on cinemax, while my grandmother napped nearby. I'd been wanting to see it ever since my aunt told me how terrible she thought it was: just a couple alcoholics cursing at one another for two hours straight, which of course I thought sounded awesome. Dennis is amazing, but Liz is the one that holds the whole thing together; Burton is good too, though I think he's a bit too much the fancy Shakespearean actor. I never really believed in his passivity. That means that the only thing you can think about him is that he really did marry her because he liked her monstrously vicious discombobulation. No one I've read before has ever noted that one of the books on the shelves over their bed is The Tin Drum, about a child who decides never to grow up.joseph Aisenbergnoreply@blogger.com