| Rating: | ★★★ |
| Category: | Movies |
| Genre: | Mystery & Suspense |
Surprisingly, I didn't like it. Its a period film set in the 1930s about a rich upper class lady who falls in love with a servant. Usually I'm a sucker for these sorts of films. But the heart of the story is what I intensely disliked.
It was nonetheless technically brilliant. Superb scene transitions. Great acting.
But to have the story being told from that awful young girl. Man, I wanted to slap that little minx's face so hard.
And to have that ending??? When you already know the truth??? It felt soooo fake I wanted to scream.
You don't have to imagine the bloody truth. Speak it out for @#$% sake!!!!
It would have been better for it to have ended with the interview and the aging woman writer being chastised publicly for her cowardice. Her fictional account only compounds the falsehood of her childhood fictional testimony.
2 comments:
I totally agree. We used our gold class voucher to watch it and we were totally disappointed. The whole premise of how she found atonement is laughable. A try-hard epic movie that tries too hard to be epic.
I think we both disliked it due to the fallacious conclusion of the film. If they had done it directly speaking the truth without that beachside ending, that would have been better sense. But in this case, the story is made hollow by the fact that the story teller atones for her sins by writing another cash + award winning novel fantasying about a happy outcome that didn't happen. That she waited from 50+ years to tell the truth and then sugarcoat it with a fantasy ending was really sick. But the film story would have made some sense if the writer had been questioned in the interview about the sheer falsehood of her story. And the film left with that awful feeling of regret at the end - damning the writer. The stark naked truth in this case would have been satisfying than the sham of a fictional happy ending. On another note: I thought Gosford Park (another period film) was superb and worth watching with your special friend. :)
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