The Strangers Review – Why Won Liv Tyler Stop Crying?
This weekend, while the Sex and the City women are laughing all the way to the bank, on the other side of the multiplex, things are much, much darker for the men. For them, there is only horror, anguish, confusion and despair. It comes courtesy of The Strangers, which begins with a man (Scott Speedman) and a woman (Liv Tyler) driving to a house in the middle of nowhere. They’re both in fancy party clothes, but she’s crying and he’s looking like he wants to cry, only he’s a manly man and so must settle for clenching his jaw, manfully. They get to the house and despite the candles, rose petals, champagne, crackling fire and a bubble bath… Tyler is still crying. It’s like every man’s nightmare: You’ve done all the right things and she’s still not happy? So Speedman says he’ll give her the bedroom and he’ll sleep on the couch, and this is totally not making any sense to me: Bubble bath + candlelight + champagne + romance = sex. At this point in the movie, my palms were clammy and a cold
