I found the revenge aspect of White more amusing than repellent. I feel that you must take Kieslowskis Trois Couleurs as one, and only then will the voyeurism (metaphor) become apparent. >If I recall correctly (though vaguely), during the recent discussion of >TRUE LIES someone expressed a desire to see Krzysztof Kieslowski's WHITE as >an example of a serious foreign film (and more worth seeing than TRUE >LIES). I saw WHITE just a day or so ago and > > *********SPOILER ALERT***** > > > > >found its depiction of a husband getting back at his ex-wife (or forcing >her to admit that she still loves him) to be more repellent than anything >Harry does to Helen in TRUE LIES. In WHITE, the protagonist fakes his own >death, puts his ex-wife through the emotional turmoil of his funeral, then >shows up naked in her bed, then frames her for his "murder," and finally >winds up watching her through binoculars in her jail cell (where she >perhaps has gone mad or perhaps simply totally docile in the face of his >demonstrated ability to behave worse than she had). Yet I haven't seen any >comments on that aspect of the film. Has anyone else seen it and had a >similar reaction? > >Richard J. Leskosky >Unit for Cinema Studies, UIUC >office phone: (217) 244-2704 >FAX: (217) 244-2223