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 SURRENDER
DOROTHY
(First Run
Features) First Run Features. 1998.
Drama. Approx. 90 minutes. Black and White. NR. Brief nudity, sex, drugs.
Trevor loves women, but he doesn’t have the balls to approach
any. Instead, he steals their silverware after they eat with it and
masturbates while tonguing the fork/spoon. As if his life wasn’t
pathetic enough, in walk his junkie pal Lahn. Lahn has pissed a lot of
people off and needs to hide in Trevor’s apartment. Of course, Lahn has
no money for rent or drugs and quickly starts to steal from Trevor.
Instead of throwing Lahn out, Trevor comes up with another plan to even
the score. Using drugs as a reward, Trevor convinces Lahn to dress up like
a woman and become “the woman of the house” named Dorothy.
As much as Lahn hates this, he likes drugs even more and
reluctantly does it. As time passes, Dorothy seems to grow more and more
into his…her role. However, Trevor isn’t happy with Dorothy having a
penis and no boobs, so he decides to take care of business.
Ok,
this is one fucked up flic right here. We get to see two people let their
obsessions run their lives and drive each other to the brink of madness.
This movie kind of creeped me out because I couldn’t tell if the
obsessions had a homosexual side to them, or if it was a case of the men
being ruled by their obsessions; ie Trevor’s loneliness and Lahn’s
drug addiction. This freaks me out because I’ve never been addicted to
anything in my life (well, I suppose masturbation can be considered an
addiction) and wonder what the hell I would do to feed an addiction. I
certainly don’t think I’d become someone’s woman..unless of course
he was cute, had a sense of humor, soft eyes, and a nice round…ehem..nevermind.
Anyway, this is one odd flic. The acting is good, the sound and picture is
good as well. There is one major continuity issue I found, but I’ll
leave it up to you to hunt it down. You
must look closely Danielson. Good indi flic, but it may freak you out.-
Denis Sheehan
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