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I suppose FATALE at least brought up an interesting topic... And there is something to be said for talking about the sort of real life anxieties I'm referencing through a fantasy lens, I suppose. That's going to be that book for me. Femme Fatale (2002) Plot. Femme Finale. Finale Recap: Fatale Attraction. The finale is preceded by a stretch where we're told that the Fatale Girl character has revealed her weaknesses to Boring Doomed Man and thus become a "real person" to the Boring Doomed Man. They try things that I don't feel like I've seen them do-- most notably a PROMETHEA-ish stretch near the end. Fatale 2020, R, 102 min. REVIEWED By Steve Davis, Fri., Dec. 25, 2020 I can't say I was hugely impressed with results in that stretch-- their version of PROMETHEA is just drawing naked bodies on top of Hubble photos or some shit...? The book spent time near the end establishing that so-and-so was the son of a Native American shaman who we saw in issue such-and-such, in order to explain why Fatale Girl had male henchmen who weren't beholden to her. Previous Next ». The 2nd Peetime is followed by a very important scene. As much as the shots within a film are important to the visual language, so are … I keep diving into them, mindlessly, but I just know with television shows, especially, shows where the action is driven by "watch this episode to find out what all the other episodes you've watched meant"... That model hasn't worked out for me as a viewer so far. I'm just not sure I'm really the best audience for mystery-driven series. talk as I'd expect. Granted, it's a horror comic so the ending maybe is appropriate to the genre. But this sounds too negative and I did quite enjoy that LA Arc-- I was never bored by the rest. Read the RunPee movie review for Fatale by Christene Johnson. This video file cannot be played. The femme fatale isn’t obsessed with the destruction of men, that is a byproduct of her true aims: to find a sense of autonomy in a culture that wants to keep her powerless. It feels like we’re rounding the corner from the effects of COVID19, and if the vaccinations can outpace the variants…, Over the past 8 months we have been working hard to completely rebuild the RunPee app using a new framework…, This is one of those articles which, if left unchecked, could have gone on forever. Or that wouldn't have had some unintended meaning at a certain point-- you probably can't put a glowing-ass white lady in a comic and not have it get fucking weird after a while... Was there any part that really struck you, in how they approached things visually? People blamed Yoko Ono for a LOT of shit that wasn't her fault, which was just silly-- the Beatles split up because of the Beatles. I just found the end of FATALE fucking confusing thematically, confusing as to how I should receive any of this. "Fatale" may be one of the only books I've done where you can really root for the main character. We all used to hear that all the fucking time! I think I was on board for the first 10 issues-- I think the highpoint was definitely that Los Angeles arc. Plus, even though I liked the LA arc, I was kind of mystified how the femme fatale idea tied in to the Manson murders or that post-hippie cult-anxiety era of LA crime. I can definitely see the noir aspects of Fatale, but sadly a rather enthusiastic cast is wasted in an epic train wreck of a film as Fatale spirals out of control to a ludicrous ending that leaves the audience begging for one more shot of whiskey to wipe the memory of this film away. The Two Pines Massacre [edit | edit source] And not just where it comes to minorities-- I feel like a lot of comics operate in this mode of "Well, this is how it is, and there's no changing it", on a host of topics. What was that born out of? All the time! Movie length: 1 hour 30 minutes. This is pure filmmaking, elegant and slippery. Video vi1446953241. Fatale by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips (of Criminal fame) places a horror spin on this trope which also serves to make the femme fatale in question more sympathetic; it's implied that she's supernaturally cursed to forever remain young and beautiful, and the spell also works to cause them to fall hopelessly in love with her to the point where it leads to their own ruin. Right? The San Fran detective arc and the LA Hollywood Cult Crime arc both felt like worlds where Brubaker-Phillips were powered by a certain lust for the aesthetics. But from a momentum perspective, I think there was a cost that younger creators would want to consider and judge for themselves. I'd enjoyed the first five issues well enough; then gotten busy at life during the next 5 and fell off; ended up catching up in trades before the last issue came out. The ending is that Fatale Girl engineers her escape. Why didn't Fatale Girl discover how to save herself? Here's a lady controlling men at a K-Mart sale on toasters. Would like to finish his “Zombie Revelations” trilogy if he could break away for working on RunPee and the cottage he’s building for RunPee Mom. I don't know anyone would ever put "Patience with Comic Books" high on my list of virtues, even under the best of circumstances, though. On a purely genre level, I'm not sure how prevalent the femme fatale character has been outside the crime genre. Which isn't nothing, but the Mystery of the book just didn't feel interesting enough to justify it. I am the most boring human being alive! When something doesn’t work right in the app it’s pretty much his fault. But me, I think I'd have dug that book more had it gotten to the finale quicker... That may not line up with the economics, though. Or that wouldn't have undercut their efforts to give that character an inner life. Fall Movies Fantasy League: The End of the Regular Season Here Comes Wonder Woman 1984 to Shake Up the Winter Box Office See All I think a repetition set in. The pacing of a film and its many moments needs to be determined. (Error Code: 102630) Play trailer with sound 2:26. Sly as a snake, Brian De Palma's "Femme Fatale" is a sexy thriller that coils back on itself in seductive deception. At least it’s a painless way to spend one hour and forty-five minutes. There's always that nagging feeling with a mystery-driven series, that some key thing didn't get explained. Like so many other movies during this weird year, “Fatale” has been kicking around the calendar because of COVID-19 movie theater closures. If anything, I felt like a lot of time in FATALE was spent answering questions I didn't really have. Was everything "explained"? At least a comic with something of some interest on its mind as it turns out, but maybe felt a little muddled in its presentation. It's a movie I've thought about a lot since, just watching what's happened in comics in the last 10 years. But after that arc, for me, the book started spinning its wheels a little, some of the air got out of that balloon. MovieMaker Magazine - In today’s Movie News Rundown: How Pieces of a Woman pulled off its astonishing, 24-minute continuous birth scene; pillow talk about the Borat ending; … Even if I had a contentious relationship with the book's presentation of 90's Seattle, I got a big enough charge out of the arc set in 70's LA that I think in the final calculation, it's worth advocating for. Plus: I just always get a little nervous around magical minority characters... A lot of time got spent with the FATALE characters chasing around a mysterious book. Here's a lady controlling men at a nose-picking competition. However, in an extended twist ending, the entirety of the movie's events after Laure enters the bathtub in Lily's home rewind and are revealed to be a dream or premonition of the entire seven years. Why isn't anyone like that with FATALE? After which, she's transformed into a withered crone and the reader is explicitly shown that men no longer sexually desire her. But maybe that's a lot to lay on FATALE's doorstep. Do you even think about how much we used to hear that? I think a big one for me is how having a comic set in a specific time and specific place adds something. Yeah, there were all those women in the Manson Family, but... do people think of them as "femme fatales"? Or that might be the arc where Brubaker's interests in the time period just most sharply diverged from my own....? Editor’s Rating 2 stars * *. 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