The majority of moviegoers are awfully comfortable with their overly traditional notions of gender roles. As progressive as some people claim to be, there are too many restrictive ideas out there about what men and women "should and shouldn't do" that it's inevitable that, when it comes to romantic comedies (arguably the film genre in which we're supposed to see male/female dynamics displayed nice... read more
" January 8th - Ceremony is a coming of age tale of a grown man who talks and lives his life like he is a literary character. The premise seems rife for some quirkiness mixed with drama and comedy, but right from the first frame Ceremony is drowning in it's own quirkiness. Everyone is completely lacking any self awareness, every moment of dialog reveals everything the characters are thinking, each person has horribly drawn out personality quirks, it all destroys any semblance of realism to the"
hiyamugi added this to a list 1 year, 4 months ago
"The romance here is more on the vanilla side (despite being between an older woman and a younger guy) and the film doesn't have many surprises, but the story does have an interesting "fish out of water" spin to it that makes this significantly more watchable than most movies that cover similar ground.
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“The majority of moviegoers are awfully comfortable with their overly traditional notions of gender roles. As progressive as some people claim to be, there are too many restrictive ideas out there about what men and women "should and shouldn't do" that it's inevitable that, when it comes to romantic comedies (arguably the film genre in which we're supposed to see male/female dynamics displayed nicely), we're gonna see those close-minded notions play out. CEREMONY is a solid example of that. If a movie is about a romance between an older woman and a younger guy, the reaction is "Haha, that's funny, poor guy trying to score with a MILF," whereas if it's an older man and a younger woman, the reaction is more along the lines of "Eww, gross. Why would she want to do that?" Since Hollywood is all” read more
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