Audrey Rose, Audrey Rose, Audrey Rose
Nov. 4th, 2020 06:27 pmAs a deliberate interruption to all the news-reading, browser-refreshing, worrying, hoping, and waiting, ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
rachelmanija and I have been watching some movies. And yesterday, we watched Audrey Rose.
Audrey Rose is not necessarily a good movie to watch to bolster your sense of sanity, but it’s a great movie to watch if you want to spend two hours thinking of something other than the election. Specifically, you’ll be thinking “WTF?” and “THIS POOR KID.” I don’t recommend this movie at all, but it’s nonetheless a fascinating—and diverting—clusterfuck of offensiveness, wasted potential, and bizarre decision-making. I was tricked into believing this would be good because it was directed by Robert Wise and made in the seventies, two factors that are usually pluses for me, but alas.
This is a movie that begins with a great setup of ambiguity and creeping dread. The Templetons are an upper-crust Manhattan family who live in a luxurious apartment with, as it turns out, ill-advisedly specific décor. Lately, a man has been following them—in particular, following them when they’re with their young daughter, Ivy, who is eleven. He calls their home when Ivy misses school, wanting to see that she’s all right. He manages to slip a gift to her. The Templetons have no legal recourse against this kind of stalking, so naturally when the man—Elliott Hoover, played by Anthony Hopkins—calls them up and asks them to have dinner with him, they say yes.
Wait, what? No, Templetons! You do not naturally say yes to this! You stay as far away from this guy as possible! He’s stalking your eleven-year-old daughter and he’s played by Anthony Hopkins, who exudes a hyper-intense sense of vague menace at all times! Use some common sense! You’re rich white people in Manhattan, just insulate yourselves from this a little more! You can afford private security!
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rachelmanija and I have been watching some movies. And yesterday, we watched Audrey Rose.Audrey Rose is not necessarily a good movie to watch to bolster your sense of sanity, but it’s a great movie to watch if you want to spend two hours thinking of something other than the election. Specifically, you’ll be thinking “WTF?” and “THIS POOR KID.” I don’t recommend this movie at all, but it’s nonetheless a fascinating—and diverting—clusterfuck of offensiveness, wasted potential, and bizarre decision-making. I was tricked into believing this would be good because it was directed by Robert Wise and made in the seventies, two factors that are usually pluses for me, but alas.
This is a movie that begins with a great setup of ambiguity and creeping dread. The Templetons are an upper-crust Manhattan family who live in a luxurious apartment with, as it turns out, ill-advisedly specific décor. Lately, a man has been following them—in particular, following them when they’re with their young daughter, Ivy, who is eleven. He calls their home when Ivy misses school, wanting to see that she’s all right. He manages to slip a gift to her. The Templetons have no legal recourse against this kind of stalking, so naturally when the man—Elliott Hoover, played by Anthony Hopkins—calls them up and asks them to have dinner with him, they say yes.
Wait, what? No, Templetons! You do not naturally say yes to this! You stay as far away from this guy as possible! He’s stalking your eleven-year-old daughter and he’s played by Anthony Hopkins, who exudes a hyper-intense sense of vague menace at all times! Use some common sense! You’re rich white people in Manhattan, just insulate yourselves from this a little more! You can afford private security!
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