Savages.

I saw the movie "Savages" last night.  I must admit I wanted to go see "Ted" instead, but my sister and cousin dragged me to the movie theater to watch this new one with Blake Lively and Salma Hayek.

Let me give you a synopsis of the movie just so you can understand my frustrations and overall negative attitude of this movie....

It was a summer's day in the middle of some beach.  Blake Lively narrates the story giving us a glimpse into the future and her ambiguous message of life and death.  She states at one point, "Just because I am talking write now does not mean I may be alive.  Maybe I pre-recorded this conversation..."  Right then I knew the audacious, far-fetched script would be a comical one at best.  The main character, Ophelia is involved with two willing gentlemen in a triangle relationship.  She fucks one and makes love to the other, as she puts it.   The two gentlemen, Ben and Chon, are one of the most successful pot growers in California (and the world) looking to get out of the drug-dealing business game.  They are approached by the destructible and malicious Mexican cartel whose leader, Salma Hayek, kidnaps Ophelia and take her hostage to force the two gentlemen to go to business with her.  Their response is to kidnap the woman's daughter and trade Ophelia in exchange.  Towards the end there are two separate endings, the correct one being that the DEA gets involved, they arrest the drug cartel leader, and the three love birds head out to South East Asia to live the rest of their lives in seclusion.

I talk about it mostly because of the two women in the lead roles.  Both women were a symbol for a new wave of women in the forefront of change in the world.  On one hand, you have the leader of a Mexican drug cartel being a woman whose husband and sons were killed in the drug wars.  She took command and in most instances showed no mercy when confronted with opposition.  The second women had a relationship with two hot men that were more than willing to be involved with this one girl and even live together.  Now I have no problem with such a fantastical plot of a movie nor the level of control the women show in the movie.  I mean it's Hollywood.  But the execution of this film was so incredibly ridiculous, I couldn't take one bit of that story seriously.  At one point Salma Hayel takes her wig off leading laughter in the audience.  Her daughter had just been kidnapped.  The acting from the two ladies was a fake best and completely incredulous.  The two girls at onepoint live together as if roomates, but one is kidnapped and the other the kidnapper.  It just seemed that all of the elements of this movie were absolutely fake from beginning to end.  This caused for their leadership roles in the film to be comical, irrelevant and unbelievable. 

This is my personal opinion and you could take it or leave it.  I just have to remind you of the cost of movie tickets and maybe watching a teddy bear smoking out of a bong might just be more laughter appropriate than watching a woman breakdown and take off a wig.

PS: Salma looks cross-eyed in the first picture.