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Sleeping Beauty Reviews
| 26 of 27 people found the following review helpful:  A slow burn, but spellbinding, By This review is from: Sleeping Beauty (Amazon Instant Video) Emily Browning stars as a detached, reckless young woman who takes a job as a sex worker - although no actual sex is allowed. Instead, she is put to sleep, and clients pay to do things to her while she sleeps. To her, her body is just a thing to be used. But how different is it from being an office drone, making copies all day or busing the same tables every night? Eventually, however, she can't help but be curious about what goes on while she's asleep....Emily Browning is terrific in this film. She was nice to look at in Sucker Punch and The Uninvited, but here she shows she has real acting chops. She is in every scene, and many of those scenes consist of very long takes, with the camera barely moving. This is also a brave performance many young actresses wouldn't be willing to do - Browning is nude for much of the running time (she is naked so much that after a while you won't even think about it). This movie will obviously not be for all tastes. It's... Read more 8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:  Bizarre....Spoiler Alert!, By Shelley D. Brook "boxinghelena" (Home of the 95, 2000 & 03 Stanley Cup Champions!) - See all my reviews  This review is from: Sleeping Beauty (Amazon Instant Video) **SPOILERS**I was looking forward to seeing this movie because I really like Emily Browning. The movie started out pretty interesting but then turned bizarre. A young college student obviously in need of money has two jobs and seems to do a bit of prostituting herself at night at restaurants/bars on the side. She takes a job as a "freelance" private entertainer. Her first night after entertaining a party with other girls, she comes home and lights an Australian 100 dollar bill on fire? I did not get it in a practical sense considering she needed the money. What made it confusing to me is that her first night didn't seem to go so bad. There was no sex involved. She wore lingerie that covered up more of her than the other girl's outfits and all she did was pour drinks for the most part. Another odd scene, at her office job, she was laying down( not sleeping) on the floor in the middle of the copy room and her boss walked in on her. No explanation, nothing and her... Read more 11 of 15 people found the following review helpful:  mind boggling, This review is from: Sleeping Beauty (Amazon Instant Video) This amazing film creates a nightmare world of its own, by timing, colour and sound (or lack of it). It attempts to address no less than all the big issues in life; youth v age, sex v death ,labour v capital and female v male. It engrosses from first frame to last. It is not literal but metaphorical and each scene contains symbolic imagery and each line has a subtext.Emily Browning is fabulous and so are Rachael Blake and all the "men". This film should have won the Palme d'Or at Cannes. |
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