28. "As a black commentary 4.5 โ๐พ" In response to In response to 0 Sun Feb-26-17 11:18 AM by MEAT
As a horror movie 3.5 because the more I think about the more I have questions
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I don't know what this movie wants to be. Does it want to be Hitchcock, cabin in the woods, invasion of the body snatchers ... what does it want to be? Because it tries to be all, and each of those has different effects to achieve the end goal. And while all art is sampling, taking pieces and making it uniquely your own is part of that. So to have his friend character be so over the top comic relief really takes you out of the fear that you're experiencing. His dejected looks are different.
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When he's in the car at the end versus when he's in the chair. And you're not at all connecting with him. So what does this movie want to be? Meanwhile what is going on with this story The founders and creators of the technique perfected it to be house servants in the end? What?!? Semi famous people go missing and nobody follows up on that case? To the point that she's binging top NCAA athletes? If Lonzo Ball goes missing, we'll never hear the end of it. The four months versus five months time difference is mentioned but not highlighted to show the priming brainwashing their relationship may have had? There's black people hanging out with white people and nobody ever has to take a picture wth flash before? All of the pictures in a red box get replaced and rehung within hours for what purpose? How'd you find me was never answered The mysterious short battery long battery life is a convenient plot device And just more.
The second I step outside of the "white people are scary as all fuck" window I don't have much of a space to be in. ,
------ โThere is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.โ -Albert Camus