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Fair Play (2023)
It had some legs but it ran out of steam.
I liked how the characters were introduced as deeply in love and comfortable with each other, I liked how they helped us understand the couple had no boundaries by having them just laugh off a bunch of blood, in a few minutes it gave us a vision of a couple who knows each other well. At this point, the movie had legs.
The conversations on the trading became boring and acted as filler.... Not very interesting after a while. How the main characters developed felt like a story we've seen a million times but the genders were reversed, I was ok with this, cliché but ok.
But then, last 20 minutes, the characters become violent and cruel in the span of a few weeks? Please, that was a stretch at best and it felt forced. She became a psycho, he became abusive, the mother overbearing... It ran out of steam and it just went basic. A shame.
Don't Worry Darling (2022)
It had the legs but not the cardio to be great.
I've been thinking about this movie a lot since I watched it last night.... but not in a good way, I've been obsessing over how it could've been better and why it wasn't so let me give some points to the conversation:
1- Shia would've been a way better actor for this film, Harry's interpretation feels flat and un-convincing, hard to connect with him over the film. (However, Florence was really good)
2- In what I consider an effort to be artistic, the film has these scenes with ballet dancers that are repeated over an over again, we get it, the scenes are about "There is beauty in control, grace in symmetry" and they were used to perpetuate that, they were nefarious, but jeez, after a while they become a distraction to the flow of the film, I wanted to fast forward all those scenes.
3- I think the ending could've been edited better, the fast cuts from scene to scene were just annoying. I would've liked to see more of the background to the story!
Overall, I think the film could've been very good but failed flat, it became repetitive.
The Son (2022)
A Son.
I'll address the first thing that I see on the negative reviews: Zen McGrath as Nicholas does not "sell" it. I thought the same thing as I was watching the movie, he never brought me in, he was hard to read, he had a smirk that threw me off, a little smile that was hard to decipher, he seemed sarcastic and out of it, I never felt his pain... but after days of thinking about this film this is what I realized:
Teenage kids are hard to read.
That is the whole point.
I am a parent of a 15 year old boy and this movie shook me to my core. It really did. The parents couldn't read the boy (much like I feel most of the time), they went with what they saw from him and trusted that gut feeling vs what professionals were telling them, they trusted the memories they had as though those represented who the boy was now, they trusted their own desire for things to normalize, they trusted the good moments, they went with the unmistakable desire that "things will be ok". They let those desires take the wheel.
This is Hugh Jackman's best performance to date as a parent desperate for things to be ok as he dealt with his own issues of being a son himself, he wanted to avoid being a monster... not realizing that being a friend wasn't the solution.
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