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13/3/24 22:51![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
owlectomyHot take nobody needed:
Cleo in Cleo from 5 to 7 is not a hypochondriac, she is a young woman who's waiting to find out whether she has cancer, and OF COURSE she's anxious and dramatic about it. What if she's been in pain for months trying to get doctors to take her seriously? She knows that any serious illness is likely to be terrible for both her career and her romantic prospects; she's acting the way that any reasonable young person would in that situation!
(This is not a knock on the movie; it's a good movie! But the summaries describe Cleo as a hypochondriac, and I don't see how that's supported by the text.)
Cleo in Cleo from 5 to 7 is not a hypochondriac, she is a young woman who's waiting to find out whether she has cancer, and OF COURSE she's anxious and dramatic about it. What if she's been in pain for months trying to get doctors to take her seriously? She knows that any serious illness is likely to be terrible for both her career and her romantic prospects; she's acting the way that any reasonable young person would in that situation!
(This is not a knock on the movie; it's a good movie! But the summaries describe Cleo as a hypochondriac, and I don't see how that's supported by the text.)
I'll take that take
14/3/24 21:28 (UTC)...and gee whiz an Agnès Varda I haven't yet seen. Thank you.