Top Ten Movies of the Decade: Femme Fatale (2002)

As far as I can remember, this movie was never talked about by anyone in Brazil. I was silently ignored. It did play on theaters for a short while, during which I recall taking my girlfriend at the time (or soon to become) to what was supposed to be a cool mystery film. Watching it again a couple of days ago messed me up, just as it did seven years ago.
I remember being pissed off at that girl and taking it all out on my girlfriend who was just so in love with that Femme Fatale on the screen.
Is it just me or is it really hard to be a man nowadays?
Focusing on the movie: I do really enjoy the way that the Femme Fatale cliches are used to facilitate the audience projecting into the movie. Most of the movie (both times I watched it) just seemed to flash almost incomprehensibly in front of my eyes, and then this huge cut shakes everything along. It feels less like watching a movie and more like having someone lecture on what a movie should and shouldn't be like.

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