Goldilocks and the Two Bears

Within Jeff Lipsky’s films, it is common for one character to speak uninterrupted for about ten minutes and yet other characters do not place interruption during the fifteen minutes that are given to them. You have to just… follow… the rule. Or, not. You don’t “have” to do anything. When a director, particularly if he penetrates into art, doesn’t set up the mood and context, when the actors are just not adept enough to manage it, when the audience has been given enough time to wonder what this one is going on about… the thing falls apart. “Goldilocks and the Two Bears” begins to fall apart when the first unmotivated monologue is spoken and it is downhill from then.

Ivy (Claire Milligan) is a Freshman in college in Las Vegas. With her grandmother, they have made themselves a condo apartment, but Ian (Brian Mittelstadt) and Ingrid (Serra Naiman) turn out to be squatters there. Ivy gets scared, however, she does not contact the authorities. Rather, she goes out for a long walk with Ingrid and the two of them exchange long speeches.Goldilocks and the Two Bears They then return back to the condo. Ian, completely unclad, is seated on a toilet directing his gaze at Ivy as she walks past. Ivy is not bothered. Far from it that, she is aroused.

Why doesn’t she shave her armpits? Well, it’s because Ingrid is a (former?) junky, exactly. Ian seems to hardly ever interact with anyone, only finding entertaining things to utter such as: “a month had passed after my first blow job before I knew I wanted to be a philosophy teacher.” Ivy has a weak crush on Ingrid which remains unpronounced, and of course they start making out while discussing Kant. As Ivy reaches the woman’s underwear, “I am definitely not the German who sleeps with too many in a bed.”

Filmmakers do not present their fascinations without cause. Howard Hawks made up and rendered in a film literal definition of woman so that this woman was even called “The Howard Hawks Woman”. Lars von Trier has his eats smokey bearing. Dire directors for instance Alfred Hitchcock, John Cassavetes, Chantal Akerman, Ingmar Bergman. These are cinematic male directors with woman obsessions and done that into work. Lipsky is equally disturbed about that but fortunately can not do the work bit of it. Once again, we are presented young naked girls and this time they talk about culture and art no, sorry, about grotesque culture and arts – Henry Miller and The Three Stooges. All of these 3 women where exactly miming to Lipsky words.

Ian has four books: William Shirer’s Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Something Happened by Joseph Heller, handbook of Dorothy Parker, and Men and Menstruation, a very thin book which is by David Linton. I looked up the last one. Here’s the description: “Though a biological characteristic, menstruation is also a complex social construction which men have a stake in producing through the agency of ‘menstrual transactions’. This book examines what actions instil connotations around menstruation since it largely seeks to explain such transactions.” I am a menstruator and no man is “active” during the process. This confirms my pebble of suspicion after turning over Lipsky’s “Mad Women”, that Lipsky has not yet gestated the aweary point that women should and disgustingly excrete in menstruation. How is it that women are able to look this way and still be attractive sexually to him?

Ingrid confesses she is HIV positive. There is a plan to take her sister into a clinical trial and there is talk about antiretrovirals and even a vaccine. The year is 2016, or at least that’s what the Goldilocks and the Two Bears film is set to (for whatever reasons), but when it comes to HIV, that particular dialogue sounded very much out of place, the date being 1997 when such clinical trials were all the rage.

I have a friend who participated in the initial Phase I clinical trial of antiretrovirals in 1996. The HIV plot device is problematic for the main reason that it is a plot device, improvised though baffling what the plot is supposed to be. It eventually tends to down play the significance of the issue in the long run as well as distort the timeline in the treatment of HIV.

The truth is, for better or worse, it’s always some variant of a Woody Allen Goldilocks and the Two Bears film, or a fan fiction of the same, and it lacks Allen’s comic touch. The character of Ivy is supposed to be rather young but more mature than people of her age, just stepping out of the teenage years but still having enough resources – an apartment she herself calls a “sex apartment” she rented to hook up with this guy. Believe it? I guess. But not the way Ivy is portrayed here by Milligan’s character who states everything with a cute mischievous chuckle in her voice. One way to look at it is, do you “get” or even care for Allen, in whichever of his films, one of the aspects is the humor that undermined the characters self-important bravados and there’s satire going on in the film. Is there something specific about what Lipsky is likely mocking? And if that’s the case, what is it?

In the story of three little bears, a little girl goes into the house of bears and uses their things. It is one of the most more commonly known fairy tales in all history and allows for a number of interpretations. Worse, Goldilocks is a very rude savage who is colonizing by arses and machismo – explains everything how it shouldn’t be. Get lost, Goldilocks. Go make the porridge yourself. Rather, this is Goldilock’s house and they are the two ‘bears’ who have come without being invited. It is a tale of loss of innocence, which is corrupted in this case as Ivy did once rent a sex apartment.

Let her have it, though it deepens the metaphorical confusion. Ian sports a beard and lets Ingrid die long hair from armpits and pubes (this is verbally and visually alluded to). Is the conception of Lipsky’s that simple Ivy is blonde, smooth and the two others hairy like bears? Where do metaphors take you after this? I mean, outside the metaphysics of the containment of meaning in a book. I mean Wonders: But what ‘worry’ can one find in the story Perhaps more appropriately, “Goldilocks and the Two Bears” is probably the one that intends to be more “provocative,” “shocking” and “playful” than its title itself. The film is none of these things. I’m not into academics yet an educated liberated woman, such as myself, can’t dammit I Kant figure it out.

Watch free movies like The Return on Fmovies