Cat
on a hot tin roof ---------------->
"Searing
intensity" the jacket says, and I don't know about that, but I do
know that 30 seconds into this movie we've got
"stole-my-heart-forever-in-Tootsie" Jessica Lange prowling
around in her slip on a hot southern evening, and now we know what the
metaphor is all about. This woman desperately needs a good hard
shagging. We just might have to take this wood out and make
ourselves a little kindling...you can have your Lolita porn, as long as
full grown women like Jessica are still runnin' around.
That
being said, this is still a Tennessee Williams' play, and whatever else
is true these people talk, talk, talk, talk, talk....I'm surprised that
Tennessee was well-adjusted enough not to shoot his characters,
presumably based on the real people he knew. It's no wonder that
Tommy Lee's character drinks, if only to drown the constant sound of his
wife's voice. Fortunately the microwave is just a few feet behind my
viewing head, and I get that little tingle at the base of my
skull...that helps a little.
But,
this is still a Tennessee Williams' play...and worth listening to if
only for lines like: "later tonight, I'm going to tell you
that I love you and maybe by then you will be drunk enough to believe
it".
Format:
DVD
