| Re: "Ice Queen," by Allan Cho, Film, December 21-27, 2006.
Who is this imbecile Allan Cho? The sub-heading should have read: Snow Cake's Carrie-Anne Moss doesn't care what Allan Cho thinks. Carrie-Anne may care about what The New Yorker or Time Out London may think about her film but she shouldn't give a rat’s ass about what some pubescent-minded, so-called 17th Avenue film journalist thinks of her latest project.
I'm especially surprised she even gave this meathead the time of day and didn't hang up on him the moment he so brilliantly introduced himself with the line "The film didn't work." For who? Cho? The people in Cho's office? Cho's friends who drink non-fat lattes? Cho's friends who watch Corner Gas?
Then he writes, "in a more sexist publication, she'd be called an absolute doll," then states she "brings a missed sexiness… to the screen." Sounds to me like Fast Forward is becoming a sexist publication.
Cho talks of the film’s "quaint clichés of Canadian small towns" and in the next paragraph "the film is too busy hitting all the clichés of an ‘important movie.’" Which is it? A quaint Canadian film or a Towering Inferno?
Finally, Cho goes on to state that the actors are too lazy to hold a benefit event for autism ( the film centres upon Sigourney Weaver's character who suffers from autism). Now Cho thinks actors should be organizing benefit events to solve world issues instead of acting.
But what really had me guffawing was, "When asked if she considered doing the Freeman (Weaver’s) role, Moss shrugs." Can he see through women's clothing, too? Perhaps rather than putting crayon to paper he should be working as an airport security guard?
Michael A. Green,
Calgary
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