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| re: INDECENT questions: MAJOR SPOILERS and way too long | |
| Last Edit: TheOtherOne 11:41 am EDT 07/08/17 | |
| Posted by: TheOtherOne 11:39 am EDT 07/08/17 | |
| In reply to: INDECENT questions: MAJOR SPOILERS and way too long - lordofspeech 11:01 am EDT 07/08/17 | |
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| I can't answer your questions, but I believe you are asking them because "Indecent" is never really about anybody and never actually tells a story. | |
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| re: INDECENT questions: MAJOR SPOILERS and way too long | |
| Posted by: lordofspeech 12:05 pm EDT 07/08/17 | |
| In reply to: re: INDECENT questions: MAJOR SPOILERS and way too long - TheOtherOne 11:39 am EDT 07/08/17 | |
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| Ok. Makes sense. It's more of a "gloss" on a series of ideas and scenes rather than any real story. I do wish there had been a "director's notes" in the program. I'm not usually such a stickler for what's real, but, with this pseudo-historical docu-drama-fantasia, after a while I was just exercising patience with each new scene, even while noting the high quality of the production elements. |
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| re: INDECENT questions: MAJOR SPOILERS and way too long | |
| Posted by: TheOtherOne 12:13 pm EDT 07/08/17 | |
| In reply to: re: INDECENT questions: MAJOR SPOILERS and way too long - lordofspeech 12:05 pm EDT 07/08/17 | |
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| That is how I felt as well. It was a frustrating experience. I felt it relied on its audience's sense of victimization to validate itself. We never really knew any of its characters, nor did we know much about "God of Vengeance," the play within the play, without which there would have been no "Indecent" to begin with. The very impressive production values ended up seeming like clutter. As I said: frustrating. |
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| yes, and... | |
| Posted by: lordofspeech 01:25 pm EDT 07/08/17 | |
| In reply to: re: INDECENT questions: MAJOR SPOILERS and way too long - TheOtherOne 12:13 pm EDT 07/08/17 | |
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| ...I guess I got invested early on in what I perceived was a lesbian love story. And the firing of the Jewish actress, who I mistakenly thought was the same character as the playwright's wife. (I didn't figure out she wasn't till late in the play.). The odd thing was that neither of the two leading ladies were sufficiently differentiated for me, except when the one became a shiksa. And I kept wanting to know what happened to the actress-character who became a lesbian. But maybe that never even happened. Maybe that lesbian stuff was only in the "onstage" scenes from "God of Vengeance," and all the (multitude of...?) actresses who played those roles were just actresses, probably heterosexual and no set of them had ever fallen in love. Curiouser and curiouser. Someone asked me about museums. I like moma and the met, but the met's better for family meetings and luncheons because moma gets too crowded. MOMA introduced me to DuChamp when I was a kid, so I will always love it, if only for that. |
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