I didn't even know there was a sequel before last night. I'm not a great fan of sequels and there's been a lot of fine films that had duff sequels, so there's no reason why the shiteness of Gregory's Two Girls should diminish this film in anyway.
Somehow I think an older, more worldly, Gregory would be much less appealing.
As for identification, I managed to identify with both Clare Grogan and John Gordon Sinclair. Something came back to me last night, about my adolescence which always looks so empty in retrospect. Something like the scenario that was set up for Gregory and Susan was actually set up for me when I was sixteen. It didn't come to much but it was something I've tended to gloss over in reflecting on my life.
One thing that was a real revelation to me was just how scrumptious Clare Grogan was - it doesn't quite tally with the bizarre little-girl-punk voice she affected with Altered Images - a band I admired a lot at the time, by the way, as being genuinely original.
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Date: 2006-10-09 09:53 am (UTC)Somehow I think an older, more worldly, Gregory would be much less appealing.
As for identification, I managed to identify with both Clare Grogan and John Gordon Sinclair. Something came back to me last night, about my adolescence which always looks so empty in retrospect. Something like the scenario that was set up for Gregory and Susan was actually set up for me when I was sixteen. It didn't come to much but it was something I've tended to gloss over in reflecting on my life.
One thing that was a real revelation to me was just how scrumptious Clare Grogan was - it doesn't quite tally with the bizarre little-girl-punk voice she affected with Altered Images - a band I admired a lot at the time, by the way, as being genuinely original.