Word: righting
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...moment's pause when she thinks for a second, right before she makes the decision to tell it like it is. She has this self-awareness that she didn't really have at the beginning of the film...
...usual, my curiosity got the better of me and I settled into my seat, which was in spitting distance from the ring. (I only know this because some wrestling brute with tattoos that spread continuously from his right pinky to his left decided to demonstrate. I wanted to ask him if getting all those tattoos had hurt, but was afraid of being spit on again.) The first fight involved someone in yellow leather (or pleather? I couldn't be sure, even with our proximity) pants fighting a Dracula-esque character with fangs and blood spurting out of his mouth. Dracula...
...they had paid for admittance into a culture where vulgarity is celebrated, violence championed, and morals are checked at the door. When, in a heavily scripted fight, a team of American wrestlers repeatedly punched a nauseatingly stereotyped Japanese wrestler, a man behind me yelled "That's for Pearl Harbor, right there!" I looked back in horror, mouth gaping. Could someone actually be that prejudiced--and everyone else remain silent...
...Although part of the Dec. XX Smackdown has since been taped over with a Dawson's episode, I managed to salvage the section where my right arm makes a cameo. Email cbrosenb@fas.harvard.edu for screening times...
...Orton's sardonic lines. Dismissing the corruption of the British police and his own ineptitude with the same casual deadpan manner, Geidt successfully conveys the amorality of Orton's society. And that really is the true genius of Loot: that devil-may-care attitude to any sense of right and wrong or to any constancy at all. None of the characters try too hard to hide their crimes, and they very readily confess it to whomever is interested. The gay lover, Dennis, as played by a very earnest and sympathetic Sean Dugan, easily declares his love...