The year 1994 was a seminal one for entertainment: television changed forever with the premiere of two iconic shows; two movies often considered among the all-time best came out to rave reviews; an un
derrated gem of cinema also premiered, but was largely ignored. Yes, many major movies came out in 1994, a year also infamously remembered for featuring so few “good” female performances that the Best Actress Oscar category had trouble filling out five slots. And yet, it’s curious that the two best female performances from the year weren’t nominated and were, in fact, outright ignored throughout awards season.
Heavenly Creatures Movie CLIP - The Fourth World HD Such a salacious case would, of course, be prime fodder for an equally scandalous movie, so it’s quite a surprise that Peter Jackson’s Heavenly Creatures is so clinical, insightful, and introspective. Wide-eyed and rosy-cheeked, Lynskey and Winslet play Parker and Hulme as vulnerable and overly sentimental girls desperate to feel everything– they are open wounds overflowing with blood and unwilling to close.
Related It’s all frightfully romantic A huge part of the Parker-Hulme case was the strong, co-dependent attachment between the girls, which many interpreted as homosexual. Indeed, both Hulme and Parker’s families were concerned at the prospect of a potential physical or emotional relationship between the girls, which was apparently one of the main reasons why they wanted to separate them.
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