Anyone know of a good boxing gym in Helena with sparring. I am looking for traditional boxing, kickboxing, or Muay Thai. Thanks!
*** Here be spoilers! ***
For reasons too otiose to rehearse at the moment, I was down a Wikipedia rabbit hole and ended up on the Boxing Helena page.
I watched the movie when it came out and I was a 'fan', which is to say that I thought it wasn't bad. I may even have watched it twice. But I haven't seen it since 1993, hence my question.
So I was very surprised when I read the Wikipedia page and learned that the ending was a dream! I don't remember interpreting the ending as a dream when I watched it - I'm sure that I thought someone had simply reattached her limbs back in hospital.
So I was appealing for any further information anyone has about the ending. Is it cut and dried that it was all just a dream (which I would have to say is and always has been a very cruddy ending)? Is there room for interpretation? Anyone ever heard the director talk about it in ways that might introduce ambiguosity?
Or was I simply too dumb to understand when I was that young?
As a misfits fan (Helena being one of my favourite songs) this films been on my what to watch list for a while, I finally get round to it and I thought it was amazing! Not scary, but uncomfortable to watch. I felt more emotionally scarred by this movie than any other I've watched in a long time, So has anyone else seen it? What did you think?
I don't that think spoilers matter. The movie is about a very spineless and pathetic doctor who is obsessed with Helena. Helena is incredibly good looking and a total bitch. The guy tries to get Helena to date him and they have an argument in front of his house. She walks out on the street not looking and a car hits her and drives away. The doctor takes her to his house and amputates both of her legs and then keeps her trapped. She is now even more pissed at him so eventually he amputates her arms as well. Then they start to bond and everything is going smoothly and both are happy until her ex boyfriend breaks in to set her free, but she decides she wants to stay. Then the doctor wakes up and it was all a dream, Helena is in the hospital and she will be fine (no amputations, he called the ambulance and then fell asleep.)
This is considered a really bad movie, but if it was directed by someone a bit more skillful and if the story was explored a little better, it could have been really good. Also the retarded dream ending makes the whole movie completely pointless. Really, wtf, why would anyone think it's a good idea to make 90% of the movie be a dream when it could have worked just fine as reality?
Anyway, since so many ok movies are getting unnecessary remakes, this is one that should be looked into. Only shame is that you can't get the same actress anymore, and she was perfect.
EDIT: I still strongly suggest people watch this movie. It's a good watch.
Boxing Helena seems almost destined to fail from the the start, before we even begin trying to figure out Julian Sands' laughably creepy surgeon or find ourselves easily distracted by the timeless 80's classics played over flaccid sex scenes because we know this is a film made by royalty. Jennifer Chambers Lynch is the daughter of one of the most inventive, industrious and opaque directors of all-time, David Lynch, and this lineage, despite affording her the channels to make a film in the first place, means she is always going to be under more scrutiny than another first time filmmaker. And choosing a narrative such as this one as her debut project proves to be a little too much for her to handle.
Reading the plot of this film beforehand conjures up some very disturbing images; revolving around a rich surgeon's romantic obsession with a seductive former lover, a car accident, a kidnapping and a subsequent amputation, this film has all the right to market itself as a disconcerting look into the perils of infatuation and the male gaze. However, the problem lies in the fact that any visuals you may conjure up from the description of the plot are going to be far more violent and alarming than anything in the actual film due to the fact that Chambers Lynch simply cannot commit to her premise. The majority of Boxing Helena is not taken up with what could have been gruesome surgical spectacle or even emotionally devastating post-surgery realisations but instead is filled with drawn out, cheesy sex scenes full to the brim with numerous, often graphic, close ups of skin, nipples and lips. When your own imagination is constantly upstaging what you are watching, you cannot help but question the motives of the filmmaker and develop a cynicism towards their subsequent decisions.
Knowing her father's work, I am hesitant to believe that all this mundanity is due to lack of effort or experience. The climax of the film asks questions of its unreliable narrator and attempts to make us question the validity of what has come before but this doesn't make what we were watching any more prosaic. Unlike her father, who we can use here as a yardstick not due to familial ties but due to his stellar work with disturbing, violent narratives and dream logic, Chambers Lynch has very little to say with her camera, relying too much on heavy handed symbolism and constant fades/dissolves.
Despite his lack of visual excitement or enticement, the film is, surprisingly, nevertheless quit
... keep reading on reddit β‘First, I'm really wondering what kind of sick, twisted vibe I give off that two separate people that don't know each other would both recommend this movie to me and,
Second, it was horrible; probably one of the worst movies I've ever seen (**edit:**I haven't seen Wicker Man yet, hence the "probably").
Now I recommend you all go watch it right now!!!
Wierdo surgeon decides to amputate a woman's arms and legs and keep her in a box.
Dumb ending: Spolier it was all a dream
David Lynch's daughter Jennifer Lynch directed it.
Kim Basinger walked out on the production which cost Kim Basinger over $3.8 million. That's how much she did not want to be in the film. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxing_Helena#Production
