RIFLE RANGE BOY

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) This film will actually blow your mind away. With all of its only 4 casts getting Oscar nominations and winning 5 of the 13 categories that it was nominated for, it must be one of its kind. The main characters, George and Martha (Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor), sets the gold standard of how chemistry between characters should be. The dialogue is quite heavy and incisive. At the time, it was considered unsuitable for general public consumption, so much so that, it became the first American movie with the 'For Mature Audiences Only' tag. Phew! That's how I would label this flick. Watching it and digesting the dialogue is quite emotionally draining. The interplay with words, word play, cursing, abuse, flirting, heckling, insinuations, teasing and quarrelling is simply heavy with emotions. The whole scenario happened in the wee hours of the early morning after a party in the Martha's father's place. Tipsy, George ...

Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf (1966) If you want to see a movie where 4 people get drunk on bourbon and brandy and go on talking and talking in circles and riddles for 2 hours, this is it. On the other hand, their talk is not gibberish mutterings of  drunks but all the outpourings of 2 frustrated middle class couples of their marriages which started with pomp and splendour but slowly degenerated to one pair who are constantly at each other's nerves and find pleasure in hurting each other real bad where it hurt most. In fact the whole film is a quarreling match on how the main character and his wife abuse each other with words whilst slowly unfolding their life tragedy. All this shouting and hurling earned this film 13 Academy Award nominations and won 5. George (Richard Burton), a history Associate Professor, staggers along in a drunken gait with his wife Martha (Elizabeth Taylor) to their home at 2am. Martha enters their home to complain about the dumpster of a house...