I never once care about the characters I am supposed to care about in this movie. Even if one understands the myth this is based on, which I won't explain here, it falls flat on it's face and never recovers.
From the opening sequence the acting feels beyond wooden, and the sets hollow, even though this is all, presumably shot on location and not a sound stage.
The implied sex sequence between Colin and Kidman is neither arousing nor necessary, and feels incredibly tacked on for shock value, which it also fails to deliver on since it is all consensual roleplay. The more disturbing and frankly leery sequence is when the barely pubescent teens are about to engage in sex and the antagonist subtly body shames and then rejects her. The camera focuses too closely on her body, and lingers too long which crosses the line of effective storytelling and confused me as to the intentions of the director and the guardians of said minor child; cinema does not have to continue to peddle such trash.
The rest of the sequences are just as vapid, and slow paced, aside from Alicia Silveratone's amazingly authentic acting in the 3 sequences she was in. She delivered what the rest of the crew could not, or were directed not to, I can't tell which as Kidman's acting is normally this stilted and unfeeling.
I would not recommend this outside of a film study class whose sole focus was to instruct would be film makers on what not to do.
A real clunker.
From the opening sequence the acting feels beyond wooden, and the sets hollow, even though this is all, presumably shot on location and not a sound stage.
The implied sex sequence between Colin and Kidman is neither arousing nor necessary, and feels incredibly tacked on for shock value, which it also fails to deliver on since it is all consensual roleplay. The more disturbing and frankly leery sequence is when the barely pubescent teens are about to engage in sex and the antagonist subtly body shames and then rejects her. The camera focuses too closely on her body, and lingers too long which crosses the line of effective storytelling and confused me as to the intentions of the director and the guardians of said minor child; cinema does not have to continue to peddle such trash.
The rest of the sequences are just as vapid, and slow paced, aside from Alicia Silveratone's amazingly authentic acting in the 3 sequences she was in. She delivered what the rest of the crew could not, or were directed not to, I can't tell which as Kidman's acting is normally this stilted and unfeeling.
I would not recommend this outside of a film study class whose sole focus was to instruct would be film makers on what not to do.
A real clunker.
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