I was wondering as I watched the film how it would deal with the girl's emotions as she clearly falls in love with someone who isn't her fiance? Would she be wracked with guilt and depressed or care-free and therefore careless? How would her family react? I wondered how the black chauffeur would react when he realized Dundee wasn't calling him a 'tribal' ironically? What if Dundee was shot in the leg one day? What if the hotel objects to him charmingly sticking knives into the wall? Would Dundee ever get in serious trouble for grabbing a transsexual's genitals?
All of these potential traps are dealt with by not being dealt with. The woman's emotions happen entirely off-screen. The family is never again mentioned. The chauffeur is already good friends with Dundee after one scene. Dundee lives a charmed life and the hotel loves him and, this being the 80's, transsexuals are not yet people.
Again, I find it not bad but uninteresting.
No comments:
Post a Comment