This is one person’s opinion only. I gather that those who distributed the Golden Globe Awards would disagree with me.

Sometime back in the twenties, a wanabee danceuse named Roxie Hart (Renee Zellweger) pulled out a gun and offed a guy who “done her wrong” — three times a week, for a month, while her husband was out working fourteen-hour days in his garage. This was shortly after a successful sister-act danceuse named Velma Kelly (Catherine Zeta-Jones) pulled out a gun and offed her husband and sister who were engaged in “doing her wrong”. (Later in the film, Lucy Liu makes a cameo appearance — pulling out a gun and offing her boy friend and two ladies who have “done her wrong”. One may doubt that violence in our society is a recent invention …) The film shows how Roxie and Velma, with the connivance of an amoral but wealthy (or perhaps: amoral and therefore wealthy) lawyer, Billy Flynn (Richard Gere), not only escape justice but profit from it.

Need I add that the movie is, in fact, a recent addition to the canon of filmed versions of Broadway musicals?

In other words, we have here a film about two murderous women who are so self-centered that they can’t imagine that what they did was in any way wrong; and the film seems to agree with them.

For those who find that they really don’t much care what happens to the characters in this film, ⁽¹⁾ there are always the songs. Since most of the songs are, both in melody and lyrics, unmemorable (with the possible exception of “All That Jazz”), the film provides them with additional decibels; bring your ear plugs to the theater. For the deaf, they are also accompanied by lots of flashing female thighs and bosoms (and occasionally male pecs, for the ladies in the audience).

If you are sixty years of age, as I am, tend to find yourself falling asleep despite the thighs and bosoms, and must spend a few dollars for a couple of hours of enjoyment, I believe that you can still find The Two Towers playing two or three doors along in the cineplex. Though it won no Golden Globe Awards.

⁽¹⁾ Actually, this isn’t fair. I really, really, wanted to see both of them hang. And I like Catherine Zeta-Jones.