I intend no spoilers, but in case I telegraph some
SPOILER ALERT!!! Jennifer - what an analogy and metaphor and observance
told so well in the horror genre (which could have been told as drama, mystery, sci-fi or any platform). What a director to deliver. What a surprise that Steven Weber got the back hoe going and dug up this story from an old horror magazine from Bruce Jones and illustrated by Berni Wrightson, wrote and pitched the screenplay.
You just don't know where the good stuff is going to come from.
What are we playing with? Testosterone? A very weird lady with "every man's dream" body from the neck down, and every lustful desire that would equate with "the neck down" female accessories that a man can fantasize , and a face fashioned in hell. Remember the very sexist phrase about "putting a bag over her head"? This movie is about the consequence of that mindset. And more.
It's about the very close knit between "doing the right thing" and "doing what pleases and excites me most", which we always pass off as "doing the right thing". I want to do this, but I want everyone to see it as "doing the right thing".
Jennifer is the truth. Grotesque, ugly and evil but innocent in that she is what she is. She wouldn't be if it wasn't for that male mindset. If she had nothing to appeal to, she would have no reason to exist.
How far will a guy chase this fantasy? How far will he follow his male hormones, what will he sacrifice to his libido? What will he give up ? All? Then it comes full circle, beginning locking with ending.
Jenifer endures because the male mindset endures.
If Jenifer didn't have mind and body boggling sex with Steven, the story would have no point. No denouement.
Knockout!
You just don't know where the good stuff is going to come from.
What are we playing with? Testosterone? A very weird lady with "every man's dream" body from the neck down, and every lustful desire that would equate with "the neck down" female accessories that a man can fantasize , and a face fashioned in hell. Remember the very sexist phrase about "putting a bag over her head"? This movie is about the consequence of that mindset. And more.
It's about the very close knit between "doing the right thing" and "doing what pleases and excites me most", which we always pass off as "doing the right thing". I want to do this, but I want everyone to see it as "doing the right thing".
Jennifer is the truth. Grotesque, ugly and evil but innocent in that she is what she is. She wouldn't be if it wasn't for that male mindset. If she had nothing to appeal to, she would have no reason to exist.
How far will a guy chase this fantasy? How far will he follow his male hormones, what will he sacrifice to his libido? What will he give up ? All? Then it comes full circle, beginning locking with ending.
Jenifer endures because the male mindset endures.
If Jenifer didn't have mind and body boggling sex with Steven, the story would have no point. No denouement.
Knockout!