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My review. (spoiler free).

posted 2 years ago by [deleted]
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TRIGGER WARNING: this film contains themes relating to the 'evils of men'. This is very vogue right now as seen by Watcher (2022), Men (2022), Last Night in Soho (2021) and The Invisible Man (2020).

Rebecca Hall is fantastic, as usual. She's given a lot to work with here. It's absolutely worth watching if you're a fan of hers, even if you're not she carries the film and makes it worthwhile.

The rest of the cast are perfectly fine.

The cinematography and aesthetic is good. A nice, sharp fullscreen presentation.

The pacing is adequete with the story holding your interest. I didn't find myself bored at all.

The only real issue with this film, and it's a big one, is that it contains a hugely unrealistic scenario presented as matter of fact. This is a grounded and realistic film barring this one concept, that's what is so jarring. If this was a loopy 'out there' film it would maybe have landed okay but what this film does is baffling. It's going for an allegorical thing here which didn't quite land for me. What they were trying to say went straight over my head. Perhaps some of you more intelligent moviechatters will latch on to the films 'statement'.

All in all I'd give this a 7.5/10 of the back of Hall, the cinematography and interest generated by the story. A good film with a baffling scenario that drags it down a bit.

[–] yatzo376 (7717) 2 years ago

I agree with your assessment of the film and was terribly frustrated with the last act

[–] Jones70 (6534) 2 years ago

Nice I'll have to check this out sometime.

[–] Lucia2016 (612) 2 years ago

'this film contains themes relating to the 'evils of men'

I didn't make it past 4 minutes. Once i heard her lecturing that young girl on being bullied by her Boyfriend for making jokes about her i knew what this film was all about.

I have zero tolerance now and can see the red flags early so glad i didn't waste my time on this

It used to be Good story first priority with a little PC weaved in that you wouldn't notice or even mind so much, but now it's Message first and work a story around that

[–] [deleted] 2 years ago

Sounds like Men (2022) which I regretted watching.

[–] [deleted] 2 years ago

This isn't as far out there as Men, a lot more grounded and realistic in ways. However if you didn't like Men you probably won't be too big on this one either.

[–] Laz (9) 2 years ago

Great review. I'd probably give it 6/10, just because of Hall's performance and the importance of the main topic. I just can't believe how straightforward and predictable this film was. It barely qualifies as a thriller. It was very much missing a central mystery to keep the viewer (or me at least) invested in the story. It is kind of obvious from the oven scene, what is going on, and the rest of he movie does not add much to the story.