My take on Knocked Up
I wouldn’t normally take the time to write a review about a movie I disliked, but as I was reading Jane’s review, and voicing my opinion she simply suggested that I should write a review in rebuttal of the points she made. Well for starters, I don’t think that what she said was off base per se, but I will just add a few points about what she didn’t say about the movie and it’s main characters.
In summary, Alison and her older sister could easily be seen as superficial and over identified with the material world. A very unattractive quality to those interested in living for a deeper purpose. As a an avid fan of horror movies, psychological thrillers, and many films that are a down right nasty expression of human nature, I am not one to be offended by a film’s portrayal of human nature, shock factor, and the like. It does make me uninterested however, when the protagonist’s shallowness is portrayed as “normal.” In fact, it probably is “normal” by todays standards to frequent night clubs as a mature adult and get your news from Entertainment Tonight in the evenings after a hard days 9-5 it . After all club hopping is something any “normal” healthy, successful young adult should enjoy, right? And in Alison’s sisters case, a 40 + year old married woman. Yes, I know, to a certain degree the females’ materialistic attitudes and shallow behavior was intentional but I began to lose my moral compass in the film as the only relatively redeemable characters, primarily the sisters husband, and secondly, the stoned loser did nothing to dissuade the insanity.
Posted on Thursday, August 23 2007
Author: Matthew Banick
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hey pipi was gud to hear frm u yestada! hows matt? my rgds to him. aas u can witness and see tht God is really at work in our lives with all the gud news flyin left right and center, how u dey jare? cool i guess sorry i havtn been commenting my work has sort evolved im nt really satationed at my desk anymore cos my boss has converted me into a utility tool for every dept, i just hope it comes with a raise.taje care and ma rgds to julie and jonathan and bill and maggie and margie and mike and paul and jo. stay blessed, donald