Comments on: deadCENTER 2009 Film Reviews

By: Japanese Kimonos

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By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:44:44 +0000

Re Forced Into “Comfort” Fighting for Apology, have to figure out how to track that down. Saw a feature length documentary on the same subject, Gai Shanxi and Her Sisters, which was equally as powerful. Think you can track it down on Amazon or through dgeneratefilms.com. Must see!

By: Brittany Joyner

Brittany Joyner — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:35:44 +0000

Kathryn,
Thanks so much for your kind words on My Little Mascot! Glad you enjoyed it and thanks for reviewing it here. I enjoyed reading your followups. Have a blessed day!

By: singletreeproductions

singletreeproductions — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 05:08:27 +0000

But in all seriousness, thanks for the kind words. We really, really appreciate it.

By: singletreeproductions

singletreeproductions — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 05:06:42 +0000

I agree with you on Hit Boys II Men. I’m not biased, but I think it was probably the best thing that ever played at deadCENTER. That or She’s Country. It’s a coin toss!

By: Sarah

Sarah — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:15:06 +0000

Exactly. So many dang sorority girls. It was so much different from my experience at the University of Arkansas, which had much more of an artsy, hippie vibe.

Later, of course, I realized that all these same types existed at OU, too…it just took me longer to find them since I wasn’t a music major anymore.

By: GraceKathryn

GraceKathryn — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:37:26 +0000

I couldn’t agree more. I actually left OU after my first semester b/c of that. Everyone was in their little sorority cliques and I didn’t make a single friend. I moved back home to Edmond with my parents.

The film resonated deeply with me even if it wasn’t that well made. It was really cool to see the locations I was so familiar with as well.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:30:00 +0000

I thought the crucifixation imagery was kind of cliched and heavy-handed in Unmasked). The film’s message really resonated with me on a personal level (I actually despised OU for the first year I was there because everyone seemed exactly the same to me). And the scene where they were all standing in the middle of that circular sitting area was brilliant (you remember which one I’m talking about?). It was such a wonderfully spooky and atmospheric use of a location I’ve probably seen a hundred times (under much more mundance circumstances). However, I thought the film, overall, was clumsy and obvious. It seemed like a first-year film student project, which to be fair, I think it may have been.

That’s why I give it an A for effort. I hope the filmmaker(s) do more films.

By: GraceKathryn

GraceKathryn — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:07:35 +0000

Re: Unmasked, nailing the mask to his head at the end – it’s a clear reference to the crown of thorns and the nails at the crucifixion of Jesus. But I guess it wasn’t really sacrilege in the film, just a reference. I was probably jumping the gun on that one.

But for personal clarification (and to offer up some additional redundancy, which I am *really* good at) – I am not easily offended. Yes, I am a Christian, but I don’t see it as my job to go on heresy patrol or anything. My job is simply to love my fellow human beings. I’m no one’s judge for what anyone chooses to believe.

…now with human rights violations on the other hand, I will shout from the rooftops if I see injustice taking place.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:37:01 +0000

You know what's weird? I completely missed all the evangelical references in Whore. You wrote about happy you were to see an evangelical, home-schooled girl portrayed as "an intelligent multi-faceted human being with compassion and depth." I think I was so overcome by my joy at simply finding a girl, any girl, portrayed as an intelligent, multi-faceted human being with compassion and depth, that the religious stuff flew right past me. Yet another reason for me to find this film and revisit it. What, to you, about Unmaskedseemed possibly sacriligious?