Thursday, June 23, 2011

Dior presents Lady Blue Shanghai by David Lynch (full)


Wow, this one was lengthy! I felt like it dragged out. It could have been tighter. And after you are exhausted watching the whole thing, its like, 'it comes down to that one little blue bag, and thats it?'.
I don't think the whole idea behind the blue bag works well anyway. I mean, it's not like it was made out to be attractive. If anything, the film presented it to be dangerous and not something you would want to be near.
The one interesting thing I got out of it was the way that Lynch used an Asian man to portray this really strong masculine character. A masculinity that we normally identify with a the Western world, not the Orient. The thing that makes it work is the fact that this male character is actually quite tall and handsome and strong. So it was about using the Orient male, but using one that had characteristics usually connected to an Anglo man, so as to make it that little more acceptable more the mainstream.

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