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[pantryslut]

I have new shoes. I feel like I can walk anywhere.

I watched X,Y at the Roxie at approximately midnight Saturday. It really was meant to be a midnight movie -- I had problems with the pacing, and it definitely had the marks of a first directorial effort, but nonetheless it had its moments.

I also watched three episodes of CSI on DVD. I was warned I might get addicted, but I don't think this will be a problem.

I was particularly unhappy with the third episode, where a sixteen-year-old gets raped during a home invasion, admits to the investigator that she was a virgin at the time (heads up, misia), and by the end of the episode kills herself. Like you didn't see that one coming.

Addendum: debbieann, who watched the episode with me, says she thinks that the home invader came back and killed her. This is also, upon reflection, a reasonable conclusion, since at the end the girl is just pictured lying in a pool of blood outside, without any further commentary. I don't know which ending the writers meant to portray, but I think it's ambiguous enough that I am still grumpy.

X,Y also featured a rape as a central plot point, but what it did from there was certainly more interesting and unique.

Comments

[pantryslut.livejournal.com]

The writers probably thought they were doing something new by showing that she was a good girl -- she and her boyfriend had been discussing having sex but decided to wait -- but still ended up a victim.

Blargh indeed.

[pantryslut.livejournal.com]

Make sure you see the rest of the comments and the addendum, though -- I might be mistaken in my reading of the ending.

[postmaudlin.livejournal.com]

just got my ticket for born in a barn on wed.! do you want to meet up for a drink before?

[pantryslut.livejournal.com]

Most certainly!

[debbieann.livejournal.com]

I didn't think she had killed herself, I thought the invader got back to her.

[pantryslut.livejournal.com]

Hm. Thinking about it again, they didn't say either way, did they? They just showed her on the ground in a pool of blood.

I'm still unhappy with that ending too, though for different reasons.

[debbieann.livejournal.com]

I really wish in X,Y they had made their relationship longer - that they had been together for ten yrs instead of one year.

[pantryslut.livejournal.com]

I want to read the book. Steven says the author is local and will be at Potlatch (also Writer's With Drinks this weekend, though I have a conflict).