tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27389910.post114948175829606030..comments2024-03-09T07:19:46.311-05:00Comments on The Short Films Blog: Jane Lloyd, ExperimentalMiddentohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13829095129849712488noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27389910.post-79242181117154375312021-02-16T01:01:29.023-05:002021-02-16T01:01:29.023-05:00The latest new and mind blowing tope alabi songs ...The latest new and mind blowing <a href="https://amenradio.net/download-all-latest-tope-alabi-gospel-songs-free/" rel="nofollow">tope alabi songs </a> click for downloading.Jack Harryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17451874001709658335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27389910.post-1149553671827937652006-06-05T20:27:00.000-04:002006-06-05T20:27:00.000-04:00I agree, "Jane Lloyd" seems cut for E! or governme...I agree, "Jane Lloyd" seems cut for E! or government sponsored anti-drug propaganda, and in that I'm not surprised David Grey's people picked it up for background to his patent slow-boiling misery-lyrics and subdued piano accompaniment. All constructed to elicit an emotional response, but not one predicated on character development or, to be polemical, the human experience or, for that matter, cinematographic experimentation (though I quite liked the cinematography). <BR/><BR/>In the film as in the song all things bad and all things good are distinct and exclusive. The experiences of childhood and adolescence are properly innocent, the move through the education system colorlessly unproblematic, and even the tattoo (especially the tattoo?) is endearingly faux-rebelious and an obvious indication of a nascent penchant for more disturbing forms of debauchery: Hooters (a gateway drug), sex in a pool (that one's okay because she then marries the man), questionable career choices (nudity = questionable), drug experimentation that boils into full-blown abuse after Jane hits it big in the city of lights (LA, the world revolves around it), and of course a tragic conclusion via prison and hopelessness that ends in such a way that any other ending, say, a happy one, or a mediocre one, or one in which dear Jane continues on for decades of on-and-off drug use that wrinkles her beautiful face and flouts her potential martyrdom, would be a let-down.<BR/><BR/>This is not to say such things don't happen, but simply that in such films such things often happen just like this. "Cliche" seems to indicate the genre of this film exactly, and since it is so predictable it hardly needs dialogue or narrative or even clearer shots or longer shots or slower cuts. Even the editing seems prescribed for the genre (Mastercard "priceless" ad meets after-school special). <BR/><BR/>Insofar as Jane is as much a product as the morality and the lingerie she is selling and the status quo she is reinforcing, the film bored me. But at least I learned that to be Happy I should avoid Hooters, and tattoos, and Hollywood. <BR/><BR/>But who doesn't already know that?rhead: a contraction for redheadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15693072148521323794noreply@blogger.com