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From: lwe3207@acf4.UUCP (Lars Warren Ericson)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Purple Rose of Cairo
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Date: Mon, 1-Apr-85 20:57:00 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr  1 20:57:00 1985
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This movie stinks.  Mia Farrow does a Woody Allen imitation for 2 hours.
She is supposed to have a non-fictional husband who beats her up.  During
the time frame of the movie, he never does, and he always backs down in
arguments.  She is never bruised.  I know this movie is supposed to be a
comedy, about fantasy/reality etc., but I resent the idea of using a totally
unreal caricature of a real-life social problem as a minor factor in the
"reality" subplot.  Because Woody Allen has a big name, and because the
other half of the movie is about fantasy, people might conclude that this is
what the psychological and physical scenario of wife-beating is really
like -- just as they might conclude from watching other movies that
computers look like Christmas trees and that people don't get hurt in
gunfights.  The single detail in the movie which rang true in any sense was
encapsulated in the two seconds of the actor flying home after standing up
the woman.  By coincidence, it may be the case that actors are the only
people Woody Allen has had recent real-life experience with.

-- Lars Ericson
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