Alexandra's Project | Helen Buday, Gary Sweet

Alexandra's Project | Helen Buday, Gary Sweet | Porn Masquerading as Feminist Revenge

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Alexandra's Project

	Alexandra's Project Helen Buday, Gary Sweet Film Movement, 2005 average customer review:based on 13 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Alexandra's Project is the January selection in The Film Movement Series. Steve (Gary Sweet) is a middle-management office worker happily going through the motions of family life as husband to wife Alexandra (Helen Buday) and father to their two children. Today is Steve's birthday, and things can't seem to get better. After receiving a much awaited promotion, Steve leaves work upbeat and heads home to his suburban townhouse in anticipation of a surprise party he suspects Alexandra has organized. A video tape marked "Play Me" will change his life. Official Selection at the Berlin, Toronto, Telluride, Edinburgh Film Festivals, Alexandra's Projected was directed by Rolfe de Heer (Bad Boy Bubby, Dance Me to My Song). The film is darkly wonderful - a movie that will leave few men unrattled and many women vicariously satisfied, according to the Toronto Star.

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outstanding film

Wow! This movie literally had me on the edge of my seat. The less you know about this one the better but I heartily recommend it if you don't mind your films gripping and harrowing that is.

Also, what a message to men, I was squirming.

A terrific pscyolocial thriller or plain old horror, personally this was more frightening to me than any Jason or Freddy film I've seen!

Porn Masquerading as Feminist Revenge

The director uses devastating feminist revenge as the vehicle to deliver his porn which includes both male and female full frontal nudity. I guess the hypocritical feminist theme was supposed to negate the porn so you wouldn't notice it. I am giving this movie five stars though because it is extremely well made and you sit glued to the edge of your seat thoughout. And maybe you will get over this unhappy movie in a day or two, but I'm not sure.

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Disturbing

Many others have already reviewed the plot, so I will stay away from that. I just saw it at our the Cleveland International Film Festival. The director / writer was in attendance for a Q&A after the film.

De Heer claimed that he strived for balance in the two characters when making the film. He also admitted that most people who see the film do not see much balance. He also said that feminist groups were the main advocates for the film.

After watching I came to two conclusions on his intentions.
1. The only balance that I saw is that in the beginning she is miserable and at the end he is miserable.
2. I cant see how any feminst group would get behind this movie. DeHeer portrays this woman as a crazy b#$%#. She is vengeful, she is a whore (literaly), she abuses drugs, and probably worst of all she kidnaps their children.

I would hate to meet the kind of people that support this lunatic. Any feminst that supports a person like this needs a check up from the neck up. This women is evil and in real life she would lose both of those kids to the father. Dont mistake me here, the father is no choir boy himself. He certainly has his vices and the writer makes sure you know that. But by the end their is only one victim.

As a movie it is very well written and clever. It is a plot that will keep you on the edge of your seat for what will happen next. It ends on a down note with a little humor built in to soften some of the blow.

In whole it is a film that is worth seeing. It will keep your interest and leave you thinking....

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big time revenge

Steve's birthday started well enough. While still in bed his kids gave him hugs and high fives. At work his colleagues had a cake with candles and his boss gave him a promotion. And his wife Alexandra promised him a surprise in the evening. Some surprise. The film opens with a camera panning through the winding road of a sterile suburb, and soft, discordant music. The very first sentence of the film belongs to Alexandra as she is alone in the bathroom looking at herself in the mirror: "I'm so sorry, Steve. . . NO! I'm not sorry! No one should ever be sorry to stand up for their own self!"The rest of the film then takes place in the living room as Steve watches the "surprise" birthday tape that Alexandra made before she left him. Her powerfully manipulative monologue to Steve takes him on a roller coaster of emotions straight to hell: humor, disbelief, regret, sadness, pity, anger, rage, and finally despair. "You didn't marry me, Steve," she tells him, "you married my body." And so she makes it clear just how a marriage devoid of affection, intimacy, and mutual respect had made her feel. This film is hard to watch because it is without nuance. Alexandra is one deeply angry and cruel woman, but if what she says about Steve is true you empathize with her anyway.

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