Michael Winterbottom has made a moral film, not a misogynistic one
Jerking one's knee has, I suppose, its merits. It provides excellent exercise for one's mouth and one's pen, if not one's brain. Thus, Michael Winterbottom's latest film, The Killer Inside Me, has provided some excellent knee exercise for certain commentators and critics who have deemed the film, and Winterbottom himself, "gratuitously violent", "misogynistic" and "a nasty blockhead".
Having never met Winterbottom, I cannot vouch for the shape of his head. Having seen the film, though, I can say that I have had plenty more "gratuitously violent" nights at the cinema and certainly much, much more misogynistic ones. In truth, Winterbottom has made an unexpectedly moral film, one that puts many of Hollywood's most common cliches to shame, and if some critics don't see that, it is because they can't see the screen through their knee-jerks.
It is nearly...
Jerking one's knee has, I suppose, its merits. It provides excellent exercise for one's mouth and one's pen, if not one's brain. Thus, Michael Winterbottom's latest film, The Killer Inside Me, has provided some excellent knee exercise for certain commentators and critics who have deemed the film, and Winterbottom himself, "gratuitously violent", "misogynistic" and "a nasty blockhead".
Having never met Winterbottom, I cannot vouch for the shape of his head. Having seen the film, though, I can say that I have had plenty more "gratuitously violent" nights at the cinema and certainly much, much more misogynistic ones. In truth, Winterbottom has made an unexpectedly moral film, one that puts many of Hollywood's most common cliches to shame, and if some critics don't see that, it is because they can't see the screen through their knee-jerks.
It is nearly...
- 6/9/2010
- by Hadley Freeman
- The Guardian - Film News
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