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Showing posts with label Lovelace. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lovelace. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 21, 2013
Wednesday, August 21, 2013
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In Lovelace we see a person transformed into commodity. This is a movie of a thousand little deaths, a heroine manipulated, exploited, sold, beaten, raped and discarded. This is the story of Linda Lovelace (Amanda Seyfried), the star of the most famous porn film of all time: Deep Throat.
Friday, May 17, 2013
Friday, May 17, 2013
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I’m beginning to think my sense of what’s weird and what’s normal is getting a bit skewed. Last night I was chatting away during the interval of ‘High Wire’, an evening of storytelling and performance art. Someone said to me; “isn't this so weird?!”. This sounded instantly ludicrous to me, my concept of performance art being generally along the lines of butt-naked guys beating each other up in car parks, a woman theatrically urinating on stage and, just last Friday, someone slicing her arm open with a scalpel. For people to consider what so far had been a relatively sedate and low-key night as "weird" made me a bit worried.
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