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WOW-LOVED IT!! (In that annoying X-Files Cheer Leading Episode Voice)
This was extremely well directed, well written and I believe personally, was a commentary on the state of just being human. There is no redeeming quality to being an animal, which is what we are as human beings; merely homo-sapiens. JAFA- Figure out the acronym and add Animal to it. We are just animals, and that is what this movie is about. Just doing the best with what we have been dealt with, wrapped around an amazingly well written "who dun-it". The ending, caught me so off guard, that I am not ashamed to say that I did not see it coming; although there is foreshadowing built into the movie and writing, as I said; it is VERY well written. I am, after all, an English minor; and this particular screen play was well written. I think beyond literary devices, the movie speaks to the human condition of always wanting our children to do better than we did ourselves. Not merely building on what we've given them per se', but as human beings as well, being better than we were as well. This part is in response to the most critical viewer review out there as well, that wanting our children to be better, is a personal characteristic that many people have, and sometimes it IS ALL that they have that they can pass on in this world. I hate to say this, but it isn't the "DUMBING DOWN" of America to which this refers, it is the "KEEPING DOWN" of America to which this refers. Many people will be able to relate to this movie; because they can understand the "down and out" feeling, the feeling of "I Just can't do it anymore", the feeling of "nothing I do is working out", and the feeling of "all I wanted was a chance" in their own lives and THAT is the redeeming quality that at least three of the character's possess in this movie. The quality of never giving up, until you just give up and cannot go on anymore, and all there is left is the wish of something better for those we that end up being left behind when we're gone.
Either way, this movie is a mystery, a thriller, and a social commentary all wrapped up in one; depending upon which lens you wish to view it through, or just how far you wish to dig, will decide which it will be. However, whichever you do select, the one thing that is an absolute as far as I am concerned, is that you won't be disappointed.
Tony Martinez, MS HRD
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From the bowels of demon Filmmaking's gut oozes this specimen of cinematic Clostridium difficile, a film so icky that it might well contaminate other films it comes in contact with.In a world without an Internet, a sour deadbeat of a woman improbably named Libby Day (Charlize Theron) spends literally tens of minutes looking into what really happened the night that her whole family was murdered thirty years ago. Some weirdos gave her some money to do this or something. We meet these weirdos a couple of times; they have a club dedicated to solving cold murder cases, and they play the film's MacGuffin as well as a group of actors could do.I dunno, if somebody killed my entire family and not me, I don't think I would have been satisfied with living off of the income generated by the infamy. Libby is, though. Or was, until the donations stopped coming. Somehow managing to not have acquired any marketable skills, and displaying an appalling lack of self-reflection ("maybe I should do something with my life" comes to mind), Libby ends up dead broke and at the mercy of whoever will fork over literally hundreds- hundreds!- of dollars for a few weeks of her crabby, smelly time.Libby. You could have been ANYTHING, Libby, and made more money. Skilled blue-collar labor is a ticket to a fairly comfortable life. Electrician? HVAC technician? Import specialty mechanic? Plumber? Underwater welder? Those jobs pay serious money, Libby. I'm just saying, since the movie would have us believe that the entire state of Kansas is desperately poor and homeless and lives in an actual toxic waste dump, somehow managing to elude the site inspectors from the Department of Energy.The movie actually does a pretty nice job of showing how absurd the ritual Satanic abuse panic of the 80s was. What utter nonsense. I've met my share of Satanists, and the scariest thing about them is that some of them actually give LaVey's organization money. Keep in mind that LaVey wrote an enthusiastic essay about how he did his best thinking whilst defecating into the toilet, presumably to clear his mind.Anyway, your movie in a nutshell is basically Charlize Theron looking pinched and sour, stumbling from one scene to another, while nothing at all happens, ever. Everybody in the movie is poor and grimy and ignorant, or they are wealthy and snobbish and stupid because they believe without question the ravings of a volt of adolescent girls. Watch it if you need an excuse to take a really hot shower.
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