I’m thinking about the replica of the Venus de Milo, whose armless, half-naked stone indifference is repeatedly seen throughout the film, like that moment before Helena’s tragic accident, in which Nick tries to keep her from leaving for a solo trip to Mexico, and how the statue seems to smirk at her, as if knowing what will happen, while Helena smiles back, not aware of her fate as she studies it carefully, touches it casually. I’m thinking about the ways in which Boxing Helena was not, as my colleague claimed, a nightmare for men, but commentary on women’s struggle with different kinds of freedom and self-expression. citizens “threatening” to move to Canada as a last resort if so-and-so wins a given election, but again, we have to move on.) (By the way, my husband has Canadian citizenship, and gets a little tired of U.S. It goes without saying men like Donald Trump already occupy vast public spaces of power and influence for someone like him to run the country is unthinkable and yet, here we are.Īnd yet here I am, still thinking of that conversation I’d had about Boxing Helena with my colleague), the same man who also slapped his desk and proclaimed that he’d flee to Canada if Trump is elected. If you want to just talk numbers, fine not voting for him will prevent a stock market crash and global financial ruin. It’s not about liking her, or trying to argue away her mistakes, both political and otherwise this is about saving the country from becoming an international pariah (see here, here and here, for starters) if Trump were to be elected. I refused to watch the debates this year unfortunately, given the choices, there should be nothing to debate. “All of the women on The Apprentice flirted with me-consciously or unconsciously. Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement.Developmental Editing Fellowship for Emerging Writers.The Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers.
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