Advantages: Original story that draws you in Disadvantages: Flashbacks may confuse if you find it hard to follow a story
the bindings on her deformed feet and the mistakes she's made in her past. As the tale unravels, we find out more of these mistakes. May first met her husband in a Shanghai brothel, where she was working as a prostitute, and - despite campaigning against bound feet - he falls in love with May's. Harrison, while obviously not approving the binding of feet, isn't afraid to delve into the eroticism of the bound foot - a sound decision since the reason for binding girls' feet was to attract a good husband.
The 'flashbacks' reveal several worlds, from May's childhood in the late part of the 19th century to a trip on the Great Siberian Express where a confused Captain Litovsky mistakes Alice for someone called Olga and abducts her, to the English boarding school where Alice and her older sister, Cecily, are sent. Each incident has an effect on Alice ...
Advantages: A good idea for reworking "Rear Window"... Disadvantages: ...but it had a poor script and lost a lot of what made the original plot so good
Rear Window (1998) - FILM ONLY REVIEW
Certificate: PG (UK)
Running Time: 89 Minutes
Director: Jeff Bleckner
Voyeurism is the act of observing the lives of others, often, though not always, for sexual gratification; it is a process by which the observer gets more satisfaction from viewing others than from experiencing their own lives. There is a little bit of this tendency in all of us, as what is watching a film if not opening up a window on the lives of others, be they real or fictional? It is no surprise, therefore, that the film industry has from time to time chosen voyeurism as the subject of its stories. A widely regarded classic of the theme is Alfred Hitchcock's 1954 film "Rear Window", an engrossing and suspenseful examination of what it is like to be a voyeur, first enforced by circumstance and later pursued ...
Collingwood21 13.09.2009
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Advantages: An incite into an unknown world. Disadvantages: Sometimes a little uncomfortable to read.
On one of my many, many trips to my local library I was thrilled to discover that there was another book sale, unfortunately the books on sale were not of the usual reading material that I go for, hence the review I will now write.
The book I will now review is ? The binding chair by Kathryn Harrison?
As I stated earlier this is not the sort of book I would normally go for, more of a semi fictional history book this only appealed in the fact that it was A, on sale for 20p, and B, I liked the cover! (Sorry I am so shallow!).
The cover doesn?t really give much indication as to what the book is about, aside from the fact that the binding chair in question is the piece of apparatus that Chinese girls sat in to have there feet bound. Not being that knowledgeable on the subject of Chinese history or the barbaric traditions behind ...
