"[Jean-Claude Van Damme’s],...sensitive side is on jaw-dropping display in the movie’s pièce de résistance, a soul-baring six-minute monologue with more emoting than in all his other roles put together. His eyes tearing up and his voice quavering, he reflects on his dreams and failures, and effectively head-butts the fourth wall. ('I truly believe it’s not a movie.')The scene came about when Mr. Van Damme, feeling apprehensive on the eve of the shoot, told Mr. El Mechri that he thought the film was still missing a deeper candor. Mr. El Mechri proposed a long, to-the-camera address. Mr. Van Damme said he felt 'completely naked' while delivering his monologue.
When he watched it for the first time, he remembers thinking, 'I didn’t lie.' He added, 'It was scary for me to do it in French.' French is his native language, but this is his first French-speaking lead role, and he has been mercilessly mocked for spouting Zenlike aphorisms in Franglais on French television. ('Je suis aware.')"
-- Dennis Lim, on the "Muscles from Brussels", and his new film, "JCVD", in The New York Times.
NewAge is a feminized cover for people with problems - if they didn't have problems they wouldn't need NewAge - but awareness of NewAge demands confrontation, and confrontation takes:
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