Reviews

Insatiable's Patty Bladell is a high school girl. Her body becomes accidentally thin, and so she becomes a princess. Typical everyday narrative, when you're accepted only if you adhere to societal notions. This is the Season 1 line. Season 2, however, explores the dark side of innocent Patty. We see her killing six people, and we root for her. Everytime it seems right to support her. Well, the instinct of life perseverance does have a part here. Yet, by the season finale Patty reveals it to us: She killed because she could and wanted. After all, she had other choices every time but she opted for killing. That is how scary we humans can be. It's in our nature, that every fault that goes unpunished makes us grow more careless about righteousness.

I was born in 1998, the same year this movie was released. When I grew old enough to watch TV, and afterwards with the advent of Internet culture, I came to celebrate my birthday by watching The Parent Trap. I think it's the stunning talent of Lindsay Lohan,coupled with a great script and a suitable cast and crew,that made the movie such a gem. Everytime I watch it, I remember how I enjoyed every scene at first time. By now, I know every line by heart, but still enjoy each of them. The handshake is one of my most favorite scenes. I also like the way the movie turns the quiet sad theme of separation into an additional problem of trivial nature. No one could have pulled it off better than Lohan,playing the twins. At first time, I thought she was a twin herself.

I watched this movie after years of seeing Lohan in some of the best movies I ever so, notably The Parent Trap and Mean Girls, and it felt like a downer. Yet, coming to see the movie itself without comparison to previous Lohan works, I can safely say that it's at least better than I thought. I mean, yes they made the part about child molestation feel weird when they made it mentioned so casually, but it's Lohan's talent that makes you go from one emotion to another. The writer may not be the best creating a good plot, but in the end you can forgive his poor writing due to the actresses' talent in executing it. In short, this is a movie with a good cast but a bad script.