A story about an ungrateful person
I'm not sure how this could have been a story good enough to spend money producing, but apparently it was.
shareDahl wrote a lot of slightly nasty, prickly little stories, and they usually had a sting in the tale. This story has two, but I don't think Anderson brought them out well. Poison was too self-consciously theatrical with all the set changes and asides to camera, which detracted from the story. Any nuance was buried when we had Dahl himself filling us in on plot points or when I had to strain to understand ridiculously fast dialogue. Anderson's highly mannered dialogue and direction can work well with suitably layered and harebrained plots, as with The Grand Budapest Hotel, but here his quirks just overpowered the narrative. A simple story should be simply told.
shareIt fucking sucked. I want my 17 minutes back.
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