Waste of time
This is a perfectly competent movie, apparently loosely based on real events (though we never know quite what that means). The acting, direction, camera-work, etc. Are all OK, but something more is needed in a story like this and it wasn't there.
A young woman is horribly murdered, there is no evidence at the scene and precious little useful information to be had from family and friends. With no leads, the police investigate her many former sex partners, each one more unpleasant than the last. You have to wonder how she managed to find such a succession of total creeps. This is a very male film. Apart from some hysterics from the bereaved mother and an interview with a best friend, it's men talking to other men almost all the way through. And it's a talky film.
The problem is, it goes nowhere. Along the road some very obvious questions are asked and answered, equally obviously. Does a woman deserve this because she dates lots of nasty men? - obviously not. Why is this all about men anyway? - because most murders are committed by men, as are most of the police who investigate them. Almost at the end there's a kind of postscript which is a bit more interesting, with a female detective and a female magistrate getting involved, but still it goes nowhere and there is never any kind of payoff.
What are movies for? Surely they should either entertain, or inform, or at least make you think. There's no entertainment in a subject like this and all the 'messages' were so obvious. We've seen all this so many times before in much better movies and no new angles here. I wasted my time and I wouldn't advise anyone to do the same.
A young woman is horribly murdered, there is no evidence at the scene and precious little useful information to be had from family and friends. With no leads, the police investigate her many former sex partners, each one more unpleasant than the last. You have to wonder how she managed to find such a succession of total creeps. This is a very male film. Apart from some hysterics from the bereaved mother and an interview with a best friend, it's men talking to other men almost all the way through. And it's a talky film.
The problem is, it goes nowhere. Along the road some very obvious questions are asked and answered, equally obviously. Does a woman deserve this because she dates lots of nasty men? - obviously not. Why is this all about men anyway? - because most murders are committed by men, as are most of the police who investigate them. Almost at the end there's a kind of postscript which is a bit more interesting, with a female detective and a female magistrate getting involved, but still it goes nowhere and there is never any kind of payoff.
What are movies for? Surely they should either entertain, or inform, or at least make you think. There's no entertainment in a subject like this and all the 'messages' were so obvious. We've seen all this so many times before in much better movies and no new angles here. I wasted my time and I wouldn't advise anyone to do the same.
- freydis-e
- Dec 29, 2023