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She definitely killed him and Daniel made up the story about his Dad telling him to get ready for his death. Tell me I’m wrong. This was a backdoor second sequel to Basic Instinct.
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 3:35 pm Posts: 32296 Location: Buenos Aires
Huller is great and that scene -- you know the one, the argument, the one where the film comes alive for a few minutes -- is truly masterful. The rest of the movie to me felt like one of any number of austere European dramas you'd find playing at a film festival. Like I posted elsewhere, Triet's previous movies Sibyl and In Bed With Victoria are both much more to my liking
Joined: Sun January 26, 2020 12:10 pm Posts: 12139 Location: Warwickshire, UK
I actually never enjoyed a courtroom drama in my life, really, until this one, so I don't know if I'm the best judge of this type of movie; I really liked the (seemingly fresh) POV, I enjoyed the humanity of the mother and son relationship and how it impacted / put strain on the case (and vice versa); I feel like most courtroom dramas I've seen have been overly obsessed with the "objective" nuts and bolts science of the law (mostly boring to me) and not what the emotional ramifications might be if a lonely, depressed woman was the primary suspect; that's usually relegated to a sideplot, if it's there at all
idk, right from the first scene, where a journalist grilling an author about how her fiction works is immediately established as a metaphor for how a court case plays out, I was hooked
It does work well on how tv and other media has been degrading whats happening in the court. Or how even the law most of the times is putting a show and trying to get benefit from that, yes.
the child's testimony; and the fact that it essentially constituted the climax of the film, instead of some brauny masculine victory for a white male lawyer who just can't catch a break, was really cool to me
Joined: Sun January 26, 2020 12:10 pm Posts: 12139 Location: Warwickshire, UK
VinylGuy wrote:
It does work well on how tv and other media has been degrading whats happening in the court. Or how even the law most of the times is putting a show and trying to get benefit from that, yes.
But ive seen better movies with this subject.
maybe I need to see more? maybe it just unlocked an interest in courtroom dramas as long as I can relate to what's being said, which is nice
the child's testimony; and the fact that it essentially constituted the climax of the film, instead of some brauny masculine victory for a white male lawyer who just can't catch a break, was really cool to me
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