josephemeryprank
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This has big enough plot holes for an elephant to fall down.
Where to start?
How did the the Neo Nazi know how to contact Elsy's adopted son? How did he track him down? He's in prison, for on thing. How on earth would he be able to get any of this information?
Indeed, why is he even a Neo Nazi - it has v little to do with the plot.
The whole denouement did my head in.
Who is who and what is what? I had to go back and watch it again speeded-up to try to work out all the little hints here and there,
It could have been a great and moving story, but wasn't.
How did Erika's husband get so quickly to where she'd just been taken off on a 7 hour road trip? Did he have a jet plane?
The characters are all really bland, especially the main characters. Especially Erika. There is absolutely no spark of interest in her at all. No charisma, nothing.
What a bore.
Where to start?
How did the the Neo Nazi know how to contact Elsy's adopted son? How did he track him down? He's in prison, for on thing. How on earth would he be able to get any of this information?
Indeed, why is he even a Neo Nazi - it has v little to do with the plot.
The whole denouement did my head in.
Who is who and what is what? I had to go back and watch it again speeded-up to try to work out all the little hints here and there,
It could have been a great and moving story, but wasn't.
How did Erika's husband get so quickly to where she'd just been taken off on a 7 hour road trip? Did he have a jet plane?
The characters are all really bland, especially the main characters. Especially Erika. There is absolutely no spark of interest in her at all. No charisma, nothing.
What a bore.
I'd always thought this was gonna be a great film.
But it's a rather boring 2 hour film that has you looking at the clock every five minutes.
You don't learn anything substantial about the characters, other than how this marathon is affecting them, and that's pretty obvious. Tiny snippets of uninterested backstories.
Jane Fonda looks fantastic - clothes and hair are great - and her bitter little snipes are almost refreshing but, although the last half hour atoned a bit for the previous 90 minutes, it's not enough.
Which is a pity because, all round, the acting is rather good.
It's just that the script sacrifices the characters to the dance marathon exactly as the dance marathon does.
Maybe that was deliberate but I doubt it.
The writer was clearly more interested in the marathon than the characters: We learn a lot about dance marathons. Very little about people.
None of the undeveloped characters, such as we know them, is particularly likeable or interesting. You feel sorry for how desperate they must be to go through this, but little else.
We see not even the remotest relationship developing - good or bad - between Jane Fonda and her dance partner even though they've been closely clinging onto each other for weeks. I can't even remember what his name was.
So it makes no sense why she would be miffed about him possibly getting intimate with another contestant.
And makes no sense whatever the hell it is she then decided to do with the MC for whatever bizarre reason - angry resentful sexual contact with someone she despises?
Obviously it's nice to not have everything spelled out like we're in kindergarten. But give us something.
However, the title of the film is clumsily shoehorned in unnecessarily at the end.
Oh and you might think a month of that punishing regime would cause a pregnant woman to miscarry. But apparently not.
On the other hand, it was nice to be reminded of the Racing Cars' song of the same name inspired by it in 1977.
But it's a rather boring 2 hour film that has you looking at the clock every five minutes.
You don't learn anything substantial about the characters, other than how this marathon is affecting them, and that's pretty obvious. Tiny snippets of uninterested backstories.
Jane Fonda looks fantastic - clothes and hair are great - and her bitter little snipes are almost refreshing but, although the last half hour atoned a bit for the previous 90 minutes, it's not enough.
Which is a pity because, all round, the acting is rather good.
It's just that the script sacrifices the characters to the dance marathon exactly as the dance marathon does.
Maybe that was deliberate but I doubt it.
The writer was clearly more interested in the marathon than the characters: We learn a lot about dance marathons. Very little about people.
None of the undeveloped characters, such as we know them, is particularly likeable or interesting. You feel sorry for how desperate they must be to go through this, but little else.
We see not even the remotest relationship developing - good or bad - between Jane Fonda and her dance partner even though they've been closely clinging onto each other for weeks. I can't even remember what his name was.
So it makes no sense why she would be miffed about him possibly getting intimate with another contestant.
And makes no sense whatever the hell it is she then decided to do with the MC for whatever bizarre reason - angry resentful sexual contact with someone she despises?
Obviously it's nice to not have everything spelled out like we're in kindergarten. But give us something.
However, the title of the film is clumsily shoehorned in unnecessarily at the end.
Oh and you might think a month of that punishing regime would cause a pregnant woman to miscarry. But apparently not.
On the other hand, it was nice to be reminded of the Racing Cars' song of the same name inspired by it in 1977.