Hollywood Land
09.27.06 (4:20 pm) [edit]Ben Affleck seemed to find his own spot; he appeared to be good for the first time. He was successfully embadoied the life of Holywood's typical typcast and the aftermath of it. Diane Lane was awesome. The meaning of the silence of Lane's Hollywood's tycoon husband's Japanese mistress offers some parallel of sexual politics working in Affleck's relationship with Lane; a needy man and a neglected wife of a powerful man who prefers a subordinate and literally speechless woman. What goes around comes around in a place like the world they belong to.
Coincidently the movie Black Dahlia offers exactly the same kind of epic and set-up; a murder mystery and sexual politics in Hollywood. This came out as idiotic as usual of this director's work. Besides a series of obvious miscast might have made a lot of audiences crack up for the overstated gestures with very disengaged actings. Johanson's pose of cigarette smoking was somehow an iconinc moronness of this director, which almost made me feel sorry for him and all the production crew.