That's my point---Haynes attempt is noble, but he fails to make the connection with contemporary life. I have no doubt about the purity of his motives. He chose to do something incredibly difficult in this epoch of fluff.

He wants us to realize that these forces are still in operation in society and individuals today, but the film's preoccupation with surface style and props (even in the acting approach), precludes that realization, and results in a lack of depth and resonance both in the period and in the present.

A lot of people have praised the film, and pegged FFH as a film about how bad things were "back then." And they were, much worse.
- bunny 3-04-2003 9:21 pm





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