Tuesday, June 21, 2016

Movie Review: The Rum Diary

This is one of the mediocre Johnny Depp movies. I suppose his core self is Jack Sparrow and in all other movies he acts diluted versions of it. Anyway, my point of interest is the romance between hero and villain's girlfriend.

I suppose this idea is a fallout of traditional patriarchal society. The feudal bad guys lusted after women of good guys in real life. Now in the movies everything has to be the other way when it is good versus evil. Here the women of bad guys have to fall in love with good guys. It's a poetic justice in celluloid.  Similar idea could be found in Braveheart. Love versus lust. Reel versus real. I suppose cringe-worthy and completely misguided idea of justice.

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