lilianaoana

The rich lives of children. Enfant de Dieu, des épreuves, les Arabes sont Catholiques - the things these kids come up with... I guess this was before people became obsessed with the concept of trauma. Cause the things they pour into this little girl's head are very traumatic. First her dad who still has serious anger issues over his dead wife repeats to Ponette that her body was all torn up. He drags her around, yells at her and everything. Then there's all the religious stories that do anything but comfort her. Ponette is unable to see god as the rest and refuses the religious teachings about death. But she uses them creatively to keep her mother alive.

I was pretty mad when Ponette's aunt tells her the story of Jesus' resurrection, completely oblivious to the fact that she would easily cling to it and refuse to give up on her mother. I was getting annoyed at all the religious spin by various people and children till it got so ridiculously detailed and creative it became amusing.

I have never seen so many kisses, caresses and hugs between children like that, I wonder if it was a generational thing back then, for sure adults do not touch other people's children anymore. The way Matthias sniffs and kisses Ponette when they see each other at the cemetery is so sweet and feral at the same time. He takes to her so sincerely it's touching. Delphine bullies her a little in the beginning then starts to take care of her at school.

I do not understand how they got these kids to act like this around each other but it's nothing short of miraculous.

I mean Virginie Efira is gorgeous and Pierre Niney has crazy hair and big soulful eyes and that's reason enough really... Wasn't a fan of where the story went towards the end, I hate those tropes and it stopped being fun for me.

Also, never ceases to amaze me how lovers with carnal knowledge of each other still employ "vous". It's very disconcerting.

So I finally watched this cause I have a close friend who's a huge Penn Badgley fan AND it's leaving Netflix so I kinda had to lol... It's very run of the mill psycho thriller fare, I hate it when they reveal everything from the very beginning and you're basically waiting for bad things to happen and come to a head. So not really clever in that regard. Probably the only good thing here is the cast, we get some big names. Dylan Walsh looks very much the part, he has such a friendly face it's creepy. Plus he's channeling Dexter, in fact I find his physiognomy very similar to Michael C. Hall's. Only Dexter was the kind of psychopath you could get behind.

Anyway, Sela Ward is your everymom but I hate it how her gut feeling is completely dead, her spidey senses are not telling her anything. It serves the movie but... Didn't clock that was Amber Heard. Kind of hated the high body count. And the ending. But I guess it was acted pretty convincingly and all the tropes were executed as per procedure.

And also, the age when they would use rock bands on the soundtrack. I miss that really.

By the way couldn't get into You at all, dropped it after a couple of episodes. Guess I'm particular about my psychopaths lol...