In ancient Egyptian mythology, a dead person's soul would be weighed against the feather of truth in a ritual called a psychostasy. If their soul was lighter than the feather, it would ascend into the afterlife. Heavy souls were devoured by Maat, eater of the dead. Good films go to hard drive heaven while the recycle bin eats the rest.
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Saturday, December 11, 2010
Showgirls (1995)
An action film directed by Paul Verhoeven.
A female hitch-hiker gets picked up and offered a job, so she leaves her suitcase in the driver's car. He goes to "get her the job" and when she looks for him, the car is gone. She beats on a nearby car and gets in a fight with a stranger who then saves her from being run over in the road. The stranger actually gets her a job as a stripper, which leads to a cutthroat career as a dancer.
Breasts! This movie is full of them! I'm emphasizing this because of how much screen time is devoted to showing them. Behind the boobs and glitzy costumes, the dancing girls have a bitch-being contest as they claw their way towards starring in a show. There is also a lot of abuse shown and implied in the plot. There are only 2 "good" people in this film. One of them is the stranger woman from the beginning who lands the main character a stripping job, and the other is the hired hand black guy who wants a relationship with the main character. Oddly enough, the only "good" characters are both black. The sound was pretty bad, but I'm rating this good anyway. No, it's not just the mammary glands that I like (not complaining about them either), I think the plot was done well and the main character was portrayed right.
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