http://makeashorterlink.com/?H2BB13257
reviews ranging from
But I love it! *Lady* was "postmodern" before postmodern was cool (before anybody knew what postmodern was)! It is deliciously self-referential: the scene in the Shanghai Low Chinese theater, with the strange Oriental play being performed onstage, instantly reminds one of all the strange characters and goings-on in the "real" story, the movie itself. But the movie itself is not real either, of course--it too is a play that reflects the bizarre world of human events, OUR world, the world of the moviegoer who seeks meaning in film and theater. House of mirrors! Movies of the '40's were just NOT self-referential, they really tried to create an alternative world that the audience could escape from its troubles into. Almost all movies then, and still most today, do not hold up a mirror to the audience. But *Lady* does. And still today many people aren't going to like what they see. "It's a bright guilty world," sayeth Welles/O'Hara.
to (Rikki-Tikki-Tavi)
This film was good, but made me fear snakes
This was a great movie. It was the first time I learned about an animal named the mongoose, and his immunity to cobra venom. It was the first movie since Bambi where death in nature was addressed.
I watched this movie every time it came on television, but it is one of the reasons I have a fear of snakes.... My older daughter would enjoy it like I did.
