filmmaker / writer / gay
Despite the explicit reference this is less a Pygmalion and more a gender-bended Jekyll and Hyde or a sci-fi Mrs. Doubtfire. Sometimes it’s the stupidest movie ever, sometimes it seems to kind of be doing something. And, of course, Pacino is always doing something. “I am Simone!” Viktor insists. And I believe her.
Once Igor appears on screen the movie shifts to his perspective. (Or, in a way, it clarifies the perspective it already had.) Baker expects us to be impressed that Igor views Ani as a human being. He seems to expect the same praise for himself.
I’m not impressed. I’m impressed by his skills as a filmmaker. But I prefer a straight dude voyeur director to spare us the self-righteousness.
Heterosexuality is a woman being like "I am risking my life to study the minutiae of volcanos" and her husband being like "my goal is to row a canoe down a river of lava!"
