Side note: Quick apology for my leave of absence lately, finals, physical exhaustion, responsibilities, and an annoyance with Blogspot.com's loss of all of my reader's stats, caused me to be unable to have anything to say. I have had time to watch more movies than ever, so I have plenty of material at this point. Yet as always keep suggesting new or old movies and I will add them to my list.
So this movie is about a girl, (Palka) who is very obviously going through some sort of crisis, and a dorky yet adorable video store clerk (Ritter).
The girl goes to the video store daily to rent porn videos. The guy looks up her address through the stores computer system and peeks into her window only to see her masturbating on her couch to one of her videos.
After a while we follow Ritter back to his car and find that he is living in it.
The next few days Ritter knocks at her door and makes up a story about an ill aunt in the same apartment building, so his often and unexpected appearances in her apartment building can be explained.
After a while he works her into letting him into her apartment. She is very standoffish and keeps a butcher's knife close to protect herself. Time in this movie seems to go by quickly very slowly...
The two grow closer, well, he grows closer to her. She is so mean to him it's hard to understand their relationship. They don't kiss, or touch and she seems to hate him and at some point we learn that he is living on her couch.
Then he convinces her to let him watch a porno with him, which is uncomfortable but it works out ok. And that's how their relationship seems to work, he brings home porn from work and cooks them dinner and they sit on the couch silently watching it. Kinda kinky I guess but it doesn't go any further than that.
One night he makes a bet with her that if his penis is bigger than the star of that evening's film then she has to let him sleep in her bed. This seems to change everything in the movie, we don't see it but the next scene is the two of them in bed, and him screaming that he will not rape her. She rants about how much she hates him and they sleep back to back.
I don't know why I choose this movie, maybe it's because I understand abusing the one's we love to test their love, and I understand the self-hate she seems to have. I hate the female character in this film but my heart bleeds for her. I hate the male character for taking this punishment yet I understand the pain he is in and the mentality it takes to be with someone that is living like that. Ugh, I don't know. It's hard to explain.
I hate movies that are supposed to be light and fun but keep me questioning myself for days after.
On a lighter note I have been watching Game of Thrones and plan on blogging on it once I understand it a little better. Spoiler Alert: This is my new favorite show, if you're not watching it you should be ashamed of yourself because it is fucking awesome- I think- as I said not sure if I completely understand it yet. Oh well, it remains to be seen.
Sorry about the shittyness of this addition, my mind is in a different location.
