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Marfa Girl (2012)
Rate:
8
Viewed:
4/25
4/25:
Marfa, Texas, is where Giant was filmed in, and
Fandango made a big deal out of it.
But I don't think the currently dying town wants to be associated with Marfa Girl. There's not much
going on but sex, sex, sex...lots, lots, and lots of it with everything shown. Men are going to have ideas
and will want to visit there in the hopes of getting laid like that because it's so easy. And women from
there are perpetually painted as strippers, nymphos, and whores.
Regardless, it's a very realistic movie in the vein of Wassup Rockers,
thanks to Larry Clark who's the master of topping himself in every film that's unlike others. I
have to say he lost some control when three Border Patrol agents were together with the female artist. These
scenes don't fit. The worst is the pretentious ending that paints everybody as brave survivors
with only one thought, "Yes! Now, the white guy is out of the picture, and we can go back to fucking each other's
brains out." I only wonder how Angie got out of the situation after following the white guy to his bedroom
and being told of his intentions straightaway.
So...what is Marfa Girl really about? The first interpretation is if one acts
cool in an airhead way and maybe tells his life story as dramatic as possible, he'll get sex just like that.
That's why the white guy couldn't get anyone to fuck him because he kept asking for it in a forceful manner.
The second is the varying levels of sex abuse. At the lowest level, the pregnant teacher thinks it's all
right to hit her student on the butt with a paddle. Somewhere in the middle, the female artist, who's
actually an adult, wants to teach him everything about sex without boundaries. The highest level is the
white guy showing pictures of a vagina, describing sex explicitly, and raping people of both genders.
All in all, nobody beats Larry Clark when it comes to teenagers and realism.