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Hey!! I am thrilled. I got your mail and Hard Candy is truly excellent. It was a great film in all respects, better than I expected. I'm partial to Ellen Page, however, having seen her film Mouth to Mouth. Her talent and range are phenomenal.

As for Cache... I was intrigued, frustrated and much of that had to do with the complicity of many characters in their own suffering and the way that pride or ego prevents people from doing what is kind, fair and considerate. The end, as I mentioned before, felt like a trailer for a sequel. I want to know what kind of havoc might unfold if the son was used as a way to access the father's emotions, in a revenge tragedy manner... not in a violent sense, but in the way that... if appeals to emotion, from people you don't care enough to feel compassionate about, cannot bring you to a sense of remorse for past actions (even if you can't change them)... the surrest way to access and force that emotion, to validate the experience of suffering, is to bring suffering home... ie. to have someone you DO care about, perceive you in such a troubled way that you cannot ignore your guilt because the subject of your cruelty is beneath you, or because you don't respect your victim. If his own son's opinion of him is destroyed, it is not as easy to shrug the guilt as it is to turn away from the son of your victim.

wheeew. long and vague... but, i'm sure you get what i'm saying.

Thank you. that's what I really meant to say. xo