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For me, the saddest thing about this movie is the concept of the tomb of the unknown mother. The idea has stuck with me since seeing this film. I find it so totally sad that it takes the love an entire universe to make up for the loss of the love of one's own children.

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Once and for All: I Love You, God Says
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Do you finally want to understand the 100-percent unconditional and nurturing love God offers us, the uniting with us even when we, like such sad children, ignore the invitation to "Come here for all that you need?"

Holly Hunter as Emma in Woman Wanted becomes this gracious and generous nature of God (and God's True, Untainted Creation [earth woman as chalice]) and expresses through Emma's character the totality of such love and its dispensation, the depths of which, like her dark eyes, are almost unfathomable.

The moment the film communicates this message clearly is like a climax the way God intends climaxes to be, and I remain wide eyed with amazement. I am left dizzy because of the connection I experience this moment and because of the intensity of my new desire to take up the passionate and powerful female manifestation of such compassion.

However, then comes the frightening moment when I relate again, this time with the deep, personal grief of a woman acknowledging the universe's crystallized responsibility to make room in space and time for all required tombs of the unknown mother. (Possible shades of Gaia's despair at mankind's seduction, then rape, of her body or shades of Sacred Female's guilt at usurping a normal woman's role in a normal man's life.)

Emma avoids such feelings or graves and is able through her simple and natural love to avert any potentiality of barrenness or responsibility for her actions. Sometimes she seems so warm, other times, so sharp and shiny. The three main characters in Woman Wanted do a lot of projecting onto each other.

The fruit Emma bears because of the love inherent to her relationships with Michael Moriarty's Richard and Kiefer Sutherland's Wendell (as well as every other character in the film) is multidimensional. It establishes for father and son a double dose of Christ 's Holy Blessing, a way for each to relate to the other wholly--both spiritually and procreatively--unhindered by the fact of their DNA or masculinity.

The problem is: Holly Hunter really flaunts it that normal, human women have no chance against this mightily attractive Sacred Femininity Manifesting to men. And how diminishing to each other we women can be. Everything about Emma somehow is spotlighted more and played in a slightly slower and more grandiose motion than for the rest of us females. It hurts my feelings and makes me jealous.

Michael Moriarty brings to the film a startling texture that is both pleasurable and sensual. Kiefer Sutherland brings a melodrama that is dazzlingly subtle and manifests characters and symbols so archetypal, they infuse the essence of the film.

The feel of the movie, in fact, is so wonderful, I wonder if I will become addicted to its sugar, never again to rise from the video screen, go outside, and sneeze in reaction to actual floating pollen.

Whatever director is hiding behind the name, Alan Smithee, should realize that in this case, such hiding is not necessary.

For those of you who do not know this yet, when a film's director claims the name, Alan Smithee, it is supposed to mean that the director considers the commissioned work too far beneath him or her to use a real name--but still wants to work and earn the pay.

Sad.

(Been there. Done that.)

In this case, either the director is pretty much blind and does not perceive the quality of every, single aspect of the masterpiece film, or he or she, please excuse the expression, somehow after making such a great film, is a numb nuts.

However, who knows? Maybe there is some other reason the director hides behind this apparently degrading pseudonym, perhaps pure modesty.

"Alan Smithee's" Woman Wanted may be the most important film I have seen to date--and I always pick quality. It just happens that way.

My advice to you is this: watch, see, listen, hear, perceive, and understand but most of all, probably, partake . . . or do.

Emma is a modern-day "Emma."

So am I.

So are you . . . if you are female.

Underneath all this sisterhood and waxing poetic, though, I realize I leave the movie with a love tinged with dull frustration. I am stimulated by the earthy sexuality of the men but thwarted in my response to them by one of my own kind: their most perfect Muse and-treacherously--my most perfect me.

I guess, after all, I still will have to figure out how this manifests God's love to me as I had thought it would.

And I will have to ask time and again.

Maybe that is the whole idea anyway, making perceivable a supposed potentially infinite and unfulfilled earth-woman outreach. It seems someone is saying the old demigods continue to invite us mortals into their beds. For women, it is either that, or choose from Neanderthal pickings left from Universe Female's swoop through their gender.

It is weird how swipswapped reality becomes now. Suddenly men are having babies, and women are resorting to gods and imagination for sex.

Boy, oh, boy. How will we ever know what is true?

Regardless of this wondering state's discomfort, though, it is imperative to continue to wonder when wonder presents itself and to identify such feelings as momentous opportunities to garner the new answers of new experiences.

We must be able to find God in all, and we must be on guard against those who would turn women into nulligravid whore victims.

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Woman Wanted
All together this movie was not too bad. Kiefer Sutherland did a wonderful job directing. And as I am not a huge Holly Hunter fan I do believe that she gave a wonderful performance in this movie along with the other actors. Kiefer Sutherland proves that he can handle being an actor and director, he had the chops for both, and good for him.