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Promising Young Woman (2020)
Too flat and unbelievable
I feel like the movie is a bit too unbelievable. It has potential but it doesn't go anywhere. It's like part 1 from a mini series.
Cassie puts herself into some pretty dangerous situations, but nothing ever happens to her (until the end, which is pretty peculiar), and you never feel any emotions, fear for her.
She is untouchable and invincible which feels unrealistic, while everyone else is just... flat. For example the dean remains pretty calm at the end of their encounter. Angry, but she doesn't yell at Cassie, she doesn't cuss at her, nothing. Now, which of us would react like that after someone "pranked" you about your child?
Also, no one confronts her. Maybe the "nice guys" are too shocked to see her sober, but everybody acts so scared. Not one person denies, or tells her that she doesn't have any proof.
I'm not sure what was the purpose of her actions? Maybe scare some men so that hopefully never happens again? I understand that realistically she couldn't do any physical stuff because that would mean assault, but what if her actions gave some ideas to the perps to make sure the girls are not conscious?
The characters are very flat. I'm not an American, so i don't know.. maybe American college students do find r**e funny, but never in my life I've met people like this. And I've also went to college, slept in dorm rooms, went to parties. It's so sad to see this "frat boy" mentality taken to an extreme in a more serious movie. Like the scene from the cabin where everybody was acting like they had a mental impairment.
At the end of the movie I cannot even be glad for her because I don't feel like she managed to get revenge. It's just a sad ending, with another victim.
Junji Ito Maniac: Japanese Tales of the Macabre (2023)
Stories that go nowhere / cliffhangers
As the title suggests - these episodes are pretty much stories that go nowhere or that end abruptly and we're left with no explanation at all of what something was happening.
Some episodes that are worth watching are (in my opinion): Tunnel, Hanging balloons, Tomb town and maybe Layers.
But even these episodes give no explanation at all of why the paranormal stuff was happening.
I suppose Layers is kind of giving us an explanation: their father disturbed an ancient grave and now the curse was transmitted to his family.. but what led to the existence of layered people? How did that happen? Did they cut an ancient sacred tree and now they were cursed to live their lives like a tree trunk? We don't know.
It feels like the idea for a movie or for an episode that was just a phrase was put that into 10 minutes of animation.
Intruder presents a teenager and his friends that see him from another dimension burring his friends in his backyard.
And basically that's it.. we don't know why he killed his friends in the other dimension, we don't know how he travels from one dimension to another, and most importantly we don't know what is he going to do forward regarding this. At the end they just seem pensive of this and burry back their corpses from the other dimension. What??
In Mold a young man lends his brand new house to his former teacher to live in for a few months while he's away and when he comes back the house is a mess. There's mold everywhere that in the end engulfs everything, even him. At some point we're told that the teacher's baby looked like it was made of mold. Ok...
How did that even happen? Were they mold people from the start? Were they cursed? Was the house cursed? We don't know. It's just mold that grows and grows.
They seem like 10 - 20 min fast forward stories.
I don't know.. it's a shame honestly. I really thought they were nice ideas, but the execution was just so disappointing.