Review of Thoroughbreds

Thoroughbreds (2017)
4/10
A+ on Sound & Visuals, But Painfully Simple Story & Ending
11 March 2018
Warning: Spoilers
The visuals, in combination with the sound/music, are spectacular in this movie--probably the best I've ever seen in any movie. A few of scenes are slightly funny (darkly funny), but I would never call this a comedy. Everything else leaves something to be desired.

The ending felt abrupt and left me feeling 'there's got to be more than this to the ending.' The people in the movie theater were sitting through a lot of the movie credits--I think they were doing that with the same thinking, 'really that's it, there isn't more?' Now when I say abrupt, I don't mean that in the traditional sense (where there is, say, a cliffhanger). SPOILER. Here, the main character goes and kills her step-father and frames her no-feelings friend. The idea being that the no-feelings friend has no life worth living. That's it, that's the ending. That's the kind of abrupt I mean.
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