Chloe: Critic Girl/Renaissance Woman

March 8, 2005

Mighty Aphrodite: An Exercise in Modern Tragedy

Filed under: Film and Television

Why did Mira Sorvino get an Oscar for this movie? I haven’t done my research to see who she was up against, but this was largely lost on me. In general, it was clever and classic Woody Allen. The greek tragedy element was novel and well-woven into the movie. This could not eliminate the bad accent and generally vapid performance of Mira. Helena Bonham Carter was just as uninteresting and her Amanda Sloane was unlikeable at best.

Now, I do appreciate that writers love to write movies in which they get to be the love interest of whoever they damn well please (note: Zach Braff and Garden State), but it is this very flaw which maybe makes Mira and Helena so generally dismal in this film. Would these two women have anything to do with Woody Allen? Even if he is the interminable Upper East Side devoted Lenny? Not hardly. Give us a break, Woody.

And on a final note, I need to do further research to come up with the timing of this movie and the Mia Farrow/Soon Yee episode - but lusting after the mother of his adopted son? Could this be the foreshadowing/artistic presentation of lusting after the adopted daughter of his son’s mother?

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