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I saw it and...

posted 9 years ago by Otto_Cunnilingus
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.....it was weird. The film was off to an ok start, but after the part where they start looking through the peephole together, the movie plateaus and stays that way. The "flow" of the film is pretty bad, too. There's no sense of connection between scenes. It's like they literally cut the film into small pieces and attempted to refit the pieces into random areas to try and give it a more authentic feeling. And no way should this film have been more than at least 80 minutes long. It was dragging after the first hour. The cinematography was nice I guess and of course Angelina looks great as usual. 5.5/10 seems fair to me.

But yes, I do agree.

[–] sibelkavadarli 9 years ago

Honestly, for me it was the exact opposite. The first part where the fact that their marriage is sad is established, I couldn't stop rolling my eyes and decided to stop watching, then the peephole happened. Anything that happened after that was intriguing to me. But I understand that that idea might be seen as a little overkill.

[–] Lilibetp 9 years ago

So what happens? They're unhappy then they become voyeurs and suddenly they're happy again?

Why are they unhappy, btw? He had an affair? They lost a child? Something like that?