Konrad
01-21-2008, 04:01 PM
Brandon, this is for you...it earned a small review in the Wall Street Journal:
'Teeth'
During the opening sequence of Mitchell Lichtenstein's "Teeth," the camera studies the twin stacks of a nuclear power plant, surveys the suburban neighborhood that surrounds it and then takes us to the home of the film's heroine, a little girl named Dawn. When Dawn grows into a not-so-little girl, played fetchingly by Jess Weixler, she comes to realize that she's the living embodiment of the vagina dentata myth, a mutant Lolita who does dreadful things to boys who disrespect her. There's no scarier myth for males, and Mr. Lichtenstein turns various images of emasculation into a black comedy that flirts, fairly tediously, with pornography. But you can also see his film, if you choose -- and you won't -- as green. Dawn might have been spared her fate if she'd grown up near a wind farm.
EDIT: Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2K0OS4gCpos)
'Teeth'
During the opening sequence of Mitchell Lichtenstein's "Teeth," the camera studies the twin stacks of a nuclear power plant, surveys the suburban neighborhood that surrounds it and then takes us to the home of the film's heroine, a little girl named Dawn. When Dawn grows into a not-so-little girl, played fetchingly by Jess Weixler, she comes to realize that she's the living embodiment of the vagina dentata myth, a mutant Lolita who does dreadful things to boys who disrespect her. There's no scarier myth for males, and Mr. Lichtenstein turns various images of emasculation into a black comedy that flirts, fairly tediously, with pornography. But you can also see his film, if you choose -- and you won't -- as green. Dawn might have been spared her fate if she'd grown up near a wind farm.
EDIT: Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2K0OS4gCpos)