[HPFGU-Movie] Re: why I was uncomfortable with the Aunt Marge scene

[patientx3 at aol.com]

In a message dated 6/17/2004 8:46:57 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
andesr at hotmail.com writes:

>>In most, not all, of America once you get 
out of the city to the burbs and small towns, most houses have a 
little land.<<

Actually, in Portland (which is on the west coast, mind you, not all of the 
coast is California), there are still many [older] neighborhoods with houses 
that have huge spaces between each other, particuarily on the east side (which 
is still within the city limits, Portland isn't a *huge* city, but its not 
small-town either) Its only in the last decade or so that I've seen new homes 
built very close to each other.

To keep this on topic, I, myself, didn't enjoy the Aunt Marge inflating scene 
either. Am I alone in this, or did any one else just find it grotesque? (I 
felt so in the book as well). The scene itself was a little over-the-top with 
the lights flickering and all that. Something about somebody inflating, no 
matter how nasty they are is just a horrifying visual, (I purposely DID NOT imagine 
it when I was reading the book), and I guess I'm in the minority of those who 
did not see the humor in it. (certainly plenty of people in the theater were 
laughing).


-Rebecca


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