Tuesday, April 10, 2012

The film "Damsels in Distress" is hard to digest

There are many fan's of Whit Stillman's movies:  Metropolitan, Barcelona and The Last Days of Disco.  I however, am not one of them.  The inane plot revolves around 4 female roommates at a formerly women's only college who find the male student body inane and malodorous.  Their self-proclaimed mission is to impugn the hygiene of the male student body, prevent student suicide and create a new dance craze.  The ring leader of the pack, Violet, becomes seriously depressed herself or as she likes to call it, "in a tailspin," after a recent break-up.  The dialogue is preposterously precocious.  In one of their many bedtime talks, one roommate drones on relentlessly utilizing the word precocity twice in one sentence only to realize that two of her roomies have fallen off to sleep, leaving only Violet, the depressed, self-proclaimed insane bunkmate up begging her to continue...
Exactly!!!

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