I liked the revenge portion of this movie. The first half where she goes and kills everyone in the home. I thought it was intense, brutal, and really hard-hitting awesomeness.
And then it turned into some lame excuse for showing us a girl get pulverized for an hour.
Anyone else agree? Thoughts?
Thank you. I completely agree.
I just saw it last night for the second time. First time I saw it around the time it came out and I quite liked it. This time though... Too much eye rolling in the 2nd half of the movie.
It becomes very silly. One thing is to break someone down by torture and isolation to achieve a certain state, but if you explain it beforehand? Wouldn't that be counterproductive? It is like explaining someone, how hypnosis really works and then trying to do it to them.
It becomes impossible to identify with Anna. Of course she had no chance against the big dude beating her up, but she could totally have overpowered the woman feeding her the guacamole. Those chains could easily have been used as a weapon to choke her.
And the ending is a total cop-out. The writer/director had no idea, what she could have whispered. So he just refuses to answer that question. Not even a hint. Lazy. I don't think the suicide would stop those other fanatics to keep trying to get an answer, so the suicide was meaningless.
But yeah, until the sitdown between the Mademoiselle and Anne it was a great movie. The rest was nonsense.
I am with you both. Once the turn in the film revealed itself, the impending sadism becoming inexcusably obvious. I fast-forwarded through it. In fact they could have easily just skipped from the old lady's scrapbook to Anna's revelation and left the rest to the imagination because what they included added nothing we hadn't seen three times before. But then again the movie played all its cards too earlier so they had to pad out the last third. It was an okay affair that ultimately floundered in its own excess.
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shareI thought it was excellent right up to the point where she is "explained", for lack of a better term, about the cult's intentions. The rest of the movie was OK, but the ending just felt pretentious.
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