It was a great movie and an even better book. (I don't know how many ofyou have ever read or seen the movie but I must say I enjoyed both.) I would like to know what you think about the main character's lifestlye and do you think you could have lived like that. Do you live like that now? Could you have dated someone like her? What did you think of the movie, book, etc?
My favorite part of that movie is when Richard Gere gets that gerbil stuck up his ass, and Diane Keaton has to yank it out with a corkscrew - now that's PURE COMEDY!!!!
absolutely horrifying ending..... Stuck in my mind. I suppose it was very relevant in the 70's with the sexual revolution etc.
_____________________ The weird thing about that movie is when it was made and when the actual even happened. (The murder really happened.) The movie was from the late 70's but the actual date of the crime was 1972. (I wonder why they went with the disco scene?)
hmmm..I guess just to make it seem more current...I have a feeling things were more promiscuous during the disco era than in the early 70's. I met this writer who is probably about 50 by now who said it was "mandatory" to have sex on the first date in the late 70's. and I doubt i would be into dating her but who really knows if I was in the time and the place.
Hell yeah, I think it was the scene PLUS the flashing light that makes it replay in the mind afterwards. It was just so unexpected. I have mixed opinions of the main character. She had been trapped in this ....ummm, mundane life and being the person I am, I applauded her breaking free ( like the relationship with her father). I mean she did stupid shit but I consider it as being in the process of finding balance. Its just unfortunate that she had to die before she found her happy medium. I think that's why its such a good movie. Does one live life to the fullest at the risk of danger? Or do you play it safe and miss the things that make life worth living? Good movie but, yeah, it took weeks for that last scene to leave my mind. I kept thinking how horrible it would be to die that way......rape scenes always shake me up
The disco scene was already well established by 1971, at least where I lived (NYC). And as promiscuous as the 70s were, the late 60s were too, but the majority hadn't turned on yet. Many waited until the mid-70s to cut loose & do drugs & easy sex.
I always thought that disco ddin't start until the mid 70's because the music still sended good until 1975 lol.
