You can accuse that movie of almost every sin and it’s going to be true. But what’s sweet about it is that despite, in many ways, being really rubbish, it’s really good! Of course half of that’s probably just because it’s got a stunning soundtrack, but it also has a lot of style, fun, spirit and personality. I know that’s really just four words describing the same concept, but I don’t care. It’s all of them nonetheless.

Anyway, I watched Flashdance last night, for what must have been the second time because, even though I thought I’d not seen it. I love the 80′s style of cinematography with the bad colour rendition, the noise on the picture, the haze of sunlight in the camera. It’s like they’d never thought that blacks should be black, and the whites should be white! This sounds like laundry detergent copywriting, but it’s not meant to be. It’s just a bit fuzzy. Thank god for Panavision!

Anyway, after watching the film I wanted to find out a little bit more about it, and in finding out facts like the fact that the star Jennifer Beals is now cast in the television show ‘The L Word’, I also came across a hilarious fictional analysis of the film from a book, published online at out.com for the 20th anniversary of the film, in 2003.

Out.com: Flashdance Screening Party
Showtime.com: The L Word

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