info at pulpculture.org wrote:
> Thanks for that too, Pug.
>
> First, I think multiple readings of a film are pretty much what anyone
> writing and directing a film intended to be a hit are trying to
> achieve. You need to get the widest audience possible, so the text has
> to have enough play in it that it can appeal to chicks, progressive
> het men, Stretch Armstrong Liberals, queers, and the men who go
> because their girlfriends want them to see a big strong man break down
> and cry after his lover leaves.
>
> Second, I was thinking after reading y'all (coz I haven't seen the
> film) that from what David describes, Yoshie's and Brian's reaction to
> the death at the end of the film are reasonable.
Actually, the death of Jake was neither here nor there for me. The "death" in the movie is the inevitable death of a world/culture in which neither love nor freedom are possible.
Joanna