Tuesday, January 10, 2012

The Cat in the Hat.

Dress is a frivolous distinction and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.


So said Jane Austen, possibly because she did not see the sad get-ups in "The Advocate," Colin Firth's 1993 film about a medieval solicitor, which has all the gritty authenticity of one of those local Renaissance Fair weekends.  Colin is a London lawyer who moves to the country for simple, pure living, that whole Green Acres thing being all the rage back then, and ends up defending a pig (real, not metaphorical) on a charge of murder.  A great premise for Monty Python movie.  Not so much for a "steamy thriller," as the Netflix category promised, although there are frequent shagging scenes with Colin and lusty maidens, in which he bares his arse (don't you love British-isms?) and doffs the doofus hat, but since his hair style is a hybrid mullet/page boy, the effect is less pleasing than one might desire.  Although for the record, his arse is just fine.

All in all, one must assume this man clutches his Oscar and thanks his lucky stars for Jane Austen and Helen Fielding.

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