this must be what dating a model is like

The two things I said to my friends immediately after "Marie Antoinette"'s final credits rolled:

"Is it pronounced "maird or merd?" and

"I wish the Katrina victims had done that to the Bush family"

(Oh sh*t merde! I gave away the ending!)

Also, trivia:

"the isolation of the cocaine alkaloid was not achieved until 1855." - Wikipedia

(Though it has been pointed out that Chuck Taylors, Bow Wow Wow, The Strokes, New Order, saying "thanks" or "kinda", and looking and/or smelling remotely attractive weren't invented until after the 1700s either.)

Also: We get it! There's a Hollywood/celebrity metaphor going on there! Yawn.

I just didn't buy it, sorry. Sofia should spend more of her daddy's money on wine for the nice people to drink and less on ten hour music videos with no sympathetic characters. I still like The Virgin Suicides, though.

Comments

[Will]

You're right about the characters being unsympathetic, but it could be there just snorting snuff, which was around then.

[kate]

I thiiiink what they might have been snorting was snuff. Or some other sort of era-appropriate powder. But I'm pretty sure it wasn't supposed to be cocaine, even though it appears that way. Very misleading.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco#Snuff

[lindsay robertson]

Yeah, yeah, I know, but it still bugged me. I think it was part of the "it's just like Hollywood, get it!???" overused metaphor.

[Elizabeth]

I feel better now. I was feeling like a colossal bitch for having such a violent need to scream BOO at the close of the film and then for having posted, at length, my anger at Sofia-- but hey, I will always love Lost in Translation.