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Film This Week in Film: The Headless Woman and Astro Boy
Posted by Lindy West on Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 4:14 PM
Take your pick! (Pick The Headless Woman.)
"Boooooo!" says Paul Constant! "BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
The plasticized American abomination that is the new Astro Boy film can’t kill the weirdness of Astro Boy’s origins—a young boy dies in a scientific accident and his father single-mindedly builds a robotic replica that can never be injured—but it does sap the concept of its joy, its cleverness, and its heart.
"Yaaaaaay!" says Charles Mudede! "YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!"
The standard arrangement for a crime film has been this: The viewer watches the detective watching, focusing on the world he is in. With The Headless Woman, we have a new arrangement: The viewer watches the film from the position and with the same intensity of a detective. Set in modern Argentina and centered on a middle-class, middle-aged woman with blond hair, the movie begins almost immediately with a crime—a crime, however, that is as much in the head as it is in the world.
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