Enjoyable watch, liked much, great scenes, feel, clothes, acting all came together well.
Something about the nuance that let it down, a sledgehammer to crack a nut, subtle it was not, complexity possibly a pipedream for a subject that has such deep fissures and fault lines...still!
French movies do this stuff seamless, flowing, implicit and treating the audiences like they know stuff and can join the dots. This effort assumes the watchers are dumb and have empty heads that need filling with explicit messages and perspectives from them that know, whereas, in the real world, murders, wars and political killings tend to be murky, conflicting, confusing and hidden.
A bit of a let down on the writing front, opportunities missed and duck taped over with some arrogant and crass brushstrokes by a very driven mono view of such a terrible , difficult, divided and bloody time in America's history?
Something about the nuance that let it down, a sledgehammer to crack a nut, subtle it was not, complexity possibly a pipedream for a subject that has such deep fissures and fault lines...still!
French movies do this stuff seamless, flowing, implicit and treating the audiences like they know stuff and can join the dots. This effort assumes the watchers are dumb and have empty heads that need filling with explicit messages and perspectives from them that know, whereas, in the real world, murders, wars and political killings tend to be murky, conflicting, confusing and hidden.
A bit of a let down on the writing front, opportunities missed and duck taped over with some arrogant and crass brushstrokes by a very driven mono view of such a terrible , difficult, divided and bloody time in America's history?
