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We just finished watching The People Versus Larry Flynt. Yes I know we may the last people on the planet not to have seen the film but there you go. Some things pass you by when you have a busy life \u2026<\/p>\nWe just finished watching The People Versus Larry Flynt. Yes I know we may the last people on the planet not to have seen the film but there you go. Some things pass you by when you have a busy life \u2026<\/p>\n
Anyway, as I said we just finished watching it. Made me feel a teeny bit old as all I could think of when I saw Ed Norton was \u201cDoesn\u2019t he look young!\u201d but ignoring that it made a rather interesting film. It was both better and worse than I expected it to be as I\u2019d read reviews beforehand and expected it to be a Larry Flynt propaganda film. In a way it was pro-Flynt, but did at least nod towards acknowledging his pure belligerence while defusing its role in precipitating some of his own problems .<\/p>\n
Suze commented that Courtney Love\u2019s casting as Althea Flynt could not have been more appropriate and at times she did look uncannily like Althea. The Hitchcock-esque appearance of Flynt in the film raised a smile but I kept thinking it could have all been done a little better. Harrelson is great and play a comic version of Flynt with a slight detachment from reality that may be an explanation for Flynt\u2019s own conduct. Not being an expert on Flynt\u2019s life and behaviour I don\u2019t suppose I can be totally authoritative on that, but then again what\u2019s new. LOL<\/p>\n
Ed Norton\u2019s speech to the supreme court is sooooo well performed that despite getting a bit impatient for the film to finish by 1:50 I enjoyed the ending.<\/p>\n
One thing that Larry\u2019s Flynt\u2019s life has underlined is that free speech is an inalienable right \u2013 though acting like a twat to prove that point makes you more enemies than might otherwise be the case.<\/p>\n
I just wish the film had been a little more insightful about the people around Flynt, Althea\u2019s sexuality and the women\u2019s whose naked bodies put Flynt where he is today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"