- Also Known As:
- Unknown
- Year:
- 2013
- Country/ies:
- UK
- Predominant Genre:
- Science-Fiction
- Author(s)/Director(s):
- Jonathan GLAZER
- Outstanding Performance(s):
- None
- Premiss:
- A mysterious woman seduces lonely men in the evening hours. Events lead her to begin a process of self-discovery.
- Theme(s):
- Alienation
- Compassion
- Emotional repression
- Friendship
- Humanity
- Identity
- Loneliness
- Loyalty
- Mercy
- Narcissism
- Nature
- Original Sin
- Personal change
- Political Correctness
- Pornography
- Redemption
- Religion
- Republicanism
- Science
- Self-expression
- Sexism
- Sexual Repression
- Social class
- Snobbery
- Solipsism
- Stereotyping
- White culture
- White guilt
- Similar (in Plot, Theme or Style) to:
- Man Who Fell to Earth
- Review Format:
- DVD
The Woman Who Fell to Earth
Only guilt-ridden Whites would ever think it a good idea to tell a story based on Robert Burns’ famous:
O wad some Pow’r the giftie gie us
To see oursels as ithers see us!Robert Burns (1759 - 96), Scottish poet. To A Louse, On Seeing One on a Lady’s Bonnet at Church (1786).
Most people in the world have little problem seeing themselves objectively and are, thus, not in need of the mindlessness of Political Correctness. This is an esthetic experiment that only partly works; albeit a more interesting one than most of the Hollywood nonsense produced today (2014). If Whites took people as they found them in everyday life, films like this would have no meaning since they would be referring to that whichg already happens - rather than something hoped for, as here.
Here, style is everything, since characters never really form to enable one to feel any real empathy for them - despite the implied human feelings developing within the serial-kidnapping alien shown here. Here is the narcissism Clifford Geertz talks so eloquently about:
To see ourselves as others see us can be eye-opening. To see others as sharing a nature with ourselves is the merest decency. But it is from the far more difficult achievement of seeing ourselves amongst others, as a local example of the forms human life has locally taken, a case among cases, a world among worlds, that the largeness of mind, without which objectivity is self-congratulation and tolerance a sham, comes.
A not fully-thought-out film that becomes precisly the kind of solipsism it seeks to critique.
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