Just watched this movie last night, was blown away. Really powerful and dark.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1242460/

6/7/2012 9:50:04 AM

I got the blu ray in the mail last week, and will be checking it out in the near future.

6/7/2012 3:20:23 PM

i want to see this, i read about it in the Jax indy paper

6/8/2012 9:24:35 PM

SPOILERS BEYOND THIS POINT








meh, I was hoping for more. It was OK. I was far more interested and intrigued with how she viewed herself, how other viewed her, how she was recovering, etc. after the incident. That was the most engaging and interesting aspect of it.

I found some (quite a bit) of the him growing up portion unbelievable. Particularly in how absurd the kid was behaving and it seemed like none of this stuff was ever addressed or the father was completely oblivious. And I get that that's sort of was supposed to be going on, but I'm just not sure I can really buy it ever being like that considering the mother, the father, and their relationship with each other and the duration we're talking.

I also didn't understand the stark difference in how she was with him and the daughter. I get that maybe early on it took her a while to really want to be a parent. She even seemed to loathe him and having to deal with him at times. But she clearly wanted his affection as time went on (evidenced by the book reading scene), yet she really didn't seem to put much effort toward it with him -- or it was extremely forced when she did. Where as that wasn't the case with the daughter. Why is that? I don't get that at all. I get that he's very unapproachable, but she was even forcing it when he was a toddler.


I think I would have liked it better if he was monster all along and the mother more normal. But she wasn't. Which is fine if they're suggesting that her behavior led to his, but he seemed to just be that way from the onset. There didn't seem to be a cause and effect thing going on, which just made her behavior distracting for me.



[Edited on June 12, 2012 at 8:25 AM. Reason : j4x4]

6/11/2012 10:20:34 PM

Well, no need to watch that movie now

6/11/2012 11:25:06 PM

sorry. figured the movie's out, no need for spoiler tags. If i could edit, i would. Maybe a mod can help out with that and throw some spoiler tags at the beginning of my post?

6/12/2012 8:23:14 AM