Saturday, September 14, 2024

Thicket.

 A really good western since a long time. Juliette Lewis is shining in the role of a deranged killer. Peter Dinklage is good as ever. The problems: psychological motivation for the murderess behavior, her unexpected tenderness to her hostage (she wanted to groom her into her heir?) and many other things are either missing or briefly explained in such mix of a local drawl and slang that it is impossible to comprehend. 

Monday, September 2, 2024

Blink Twice by Zoe Kravitz.

     


      The movie continues the narrative started with "The Menu", "Glass Onion" and "The Triangle of Sadness" blacklisted by Hollywood censorship machine, probably for "American Communist-Russian Capitalist" shtick. The narrative is that the filthy rich become vapid and insane.  

    The problem with the movie is that few of the storylines are supported by action. The most important plot moments are garbled like the story of the child abuse of the principal character turning him into a sociopath. 

     The ending is good but borrowed from the ending of "Misery" with James Caan and Kathy Bates.