The Captive: Proves obsession is contagious

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It has to be because that's the only way a sane person could survive 1:58 of boredom. You have to become obsessed with the idea that something might actually happen in the next 10 minutes. And when the predictable end comes you suddenly want those lost two hours of your life back.
A wealthy young scion in Paris has a live-in girlfriend (emphasis friend) with whom he is in love and totally obsessed. Being young, wealthy, and ferried about in a chauffer driven Rolls would make most guys a party animal. Naah, not for Simon. He's got Sylvie Testud living with him (nearly capitve) down the hall involved in a truly twisted up relationship. Simon must follow her around, get his other girlfriend to accompany her everywhere, and pry into her evey thought and affair. He doesn't trust her, thinks she's a lesbian, interrogates her in every conversation, and is generally a very sick poodle. He's so yammered up he decides to break up with her only to have her back at the last moment--leading us to a very predictable end.
Don't worry about the end, though, because I've already wasted too much of our time thus far on this celluloid overdose of sleeping sauce. Forget I ever brought it up.

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Topic - The Captive: Proves obsession is contagious - mr grits 20:44:22 09/11/05 (9)

Do you like Proust? - Victor Khomenko 06:16:08 09/12/05 (3)

Re: Do you like Proust? - mr grits 11:44:53 09/12/05 (1)

Jesus Christ, man, Hesse isn't great lit anymore than Tolkien is. - tinear 16:42:40 09/12/05 (0)

Re: Aimez vous Brahms? - patrickU 07:50:23 09/12/05 (0)

A superb film. Akerman's best after a long slump. - Donald 04:55:52 09/12/05 (4)

Akerman is in trouble if that's a good effort . . . - mr grits 11:46:24 09/12/05 (0)

"Slow, brutal, and difficult... and in a good way." - tinear 07:12:07 09/12/05 (2)

Why? - Donald 05:52:46 09/13/05 (1)

Just tweaking your teats after your nasty post awhile back. nt - tinear 17:03:40 09/13/05 (0)

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