Safe (1995) [VHS]
by Todd Haynes
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Actor: Julianne Moore, Kate McGregor-Stewart, Peter Friedman, Susan Norman, Xander BerkeleyDirector: Todd Haynes
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language), Analog
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
Running Time: 119 minutes
Release Date: 2000-06-13
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Studio: Sony Pictures
VHS Movie Reviews of Safe (1995) [VHS]
Movie Review: environMENTAL ILLNESS...
Summary: 5 Stars
Having lived my early childhood through the loopy 1970s, I suddenly found myself having to be a teenager in the stultifyingly sterile '80s! SAFE captures this dull, self-obsessed decade perfectly. Carol White (Julianne Moore from Hannibal) is a typically rich, near-catatonic house-spouse with a seemingly pristine existence. Carol has everything that we were led to believe is vitally important for happiness. She is completely protected from the urban horrors of the city, living in her mammoth estate, walled off from all lesser reality. Unfortunately, there is no true escape for Carol, as she begins having physical reactions to the white noise that is her life. Carol has environmental sensitivity, a metaphor that captures the alienation, desolation, and ridiculousness of the entire "Me-Me!" generation. Xander Berkeley (Candyman) plays Greg, Carol's frustrated, confused husband. He has all the warmth and understanding of a slab of marble and isn't afraid to show it! Carol gets increasingly worse, sicker, crazier. Greg looks on like a helpess witness of the Hindenberg disaster. Doctors and therapists are useless. Carol finally finds her salvation in a place called Wrenwood, where a cult leader and his followers accept Carol with open arms and wide smiles. Wrenwood allows Carol to spiral down to the absolute bottom. She discovers her total lack of inner lIfe. Her lack of identity. Her interior emptiness. Carol enters the subtle horror of self-affirmation, where she must remind herself that she does actually exist. However, her whole reason for being is now linked forever to her condition. Carol's illness is her identity now. She is the sick one. She is SAFE... P.S.- Watch for the creepy "Lester" character as he lurches along the perifery of the Wrenwood grounds. He's like a zombie-puppet on spider legs! He's probably the most disturbing thing about the movie...
Summary of Safe (1995) [VHS]
Carol White (Julianne Moore) is a mousy housewife living the affluent life in the San Fernando Valley when, over the span of a few months, she begins to develop debilitating sensitivities to her environment. A permanent at the hair salon makes her nose bleed and her skin go bad, exhaust from a truck causes her to cough violently, she's allergic to the new couch, goes into seizures at the dry cleaner's. No one understands or credits her condition, least of all her husband or family physician. But the symptoms worsen, and Carol eventually discovers others who suffer from similar environmental illnesses. She checks into a desert spa that caters to those in her predicament, and the staff regales her with touchy-feely, infomercial-style affirmations. All of this could have been broad satire, but director Todd Haynes (Velvet Goldmine) opts for a filming style that captures the empty elegance of Carol's passive lifestyle and looks on with clinical dispassion, so that you can hear the oppressive quiet surrounding her. It's positively eerie, so you know you're not watching just a worthy cause picture or movie of the week. Haynes has more ambition than that, even going so far as to insert a slight buzzing sound in the soundtrack to accentuate the unease. Fluorescent lights? Power lines? Who knows? Maybe it's safe to call it the ominous rumblings beneath the surface of Carol's life, from antiseptic affluence to septic isolation in the spa environment. A model of sustained tone, boasting one of the most remarkable performances by Julianne Moore, from a whole career of remarkable performances. --Jim GayDrama VHS Video
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