12-24-2009
The Grand Theater
Poor
Well I do find myself in a pickle here.
Great Characters? Check. Every character is complex and interesting. There is no black and white. There are reasons why everyone is the way they are.
Great acting? Check, check, check! Acting was phenomenal. Probably the best performances of the year!
So why a rating of poor? Because in the end I just didn't like it. I didn't understand the point. If the movie was to tell this girls story, why didn't they tell us the ending? Every thread in the story was left unresolved. You are left not knowing anything about what happens to these characters. Don't get me wrong it doesn't have to have a happy ending, but it must have an ending.
Perhaps the only point of this movie was to make everyone cry. The structure of the film is what ruined it for me. Let me summarize. First something horrible happens, and then something even more horrible happens, and then something even more horrbile happens. Things get a little better and then something horrible happens. The end. No resolution, not even a line of text at the end that says "And then 2 days later Precious gets hit by a bus" (I wouldn't have been surprised if that really did happen).
I am sad that the performances by the actors were wasted on a bad plot structure. You would think that such powerful performances would overshadow the poorly constructed story. But it didn't and I left the theater angry and confused.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5FYahzVU44
The Grand Theater
Poor
Well I do find myself in a pickle here.
Great Characters? Check. Every character is complex and interesting. There is no black and white. There are reasons why everyone is the way they are.
Great acting? Check, check, check! Acting was phenomenal. Probably the best performances of the year!
So why a rating of poor? Because in the end I just didn't like it. I didn't understand the point. If the movie was to tell this girls story, why didn't they tell us the ending? Every thread in the story was left unresolved. You are left not knowing anything about what happens to these characters. Don't get me wrong it doesn't have to have a happy ending, but it must have an ending.
Perhaps the only point of this movie was to make everyone cry. The structure of the film is what ruined it for me. Let me summarize. First something horrible happens, and then something even more horrible happens, and then something even more horrbile happens. Things get a little better and then something horrible happens. The end. No resolution, not even a line of text at the end that says "And then 2 days later Precious gets hit by a bus" (I wouldn't have been surprised if that really did happen).
I am sad that the performances by the actors were wasted on a bad plot structure. You would think that such powerful performances would overshadow the poorly constructed story. But it didn't and I left the theater angry and confused.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5FYahzVU44
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