clairelouise5

I didn't like the book Clown in a Cornfield, it felt a bit YA to me but I wanted to try the film as I thought it might translate better. Initially yes it did. The small town, the cast of teens and the creepy corn fields and clowns. I liked some of it but I am not into the slasher aspect. Not really knocking the film as it's prob just taking it from the book but too easy to guess and figure out. It was sort of good but also sort of not. I like the girl main character I thought she was very watchable. It didn't fully hold my interest to the end.

Came because of Talk To Me. Found it to be... a bit odd and gross and depressing. The main woman, despite playing her character well, was irritating and the story was very centred on her. Very quickly I had had enough of her. When it started, I was excited as it had the same modern feel to Talk To Me. The teens texting at the bus stop. I thought it would be punchy and original, finger on the pulse kind of horror. Instead it was just unsavoury and weird. It didn't feel very modern or fresh. A weird woman in a weird house. I didn't really like some of themes, overall a bit nasty feeling. Disappointing.

Scorcese knocks it out of the park with Killers of the Flower Moon. This is a non-woke, non box-ticking, unapologetic, true account of a gripping true crime story dating back to the early 1900s. I had seen the film advertised which made me finally get round to picking up the book. It's an unbelievable story- wealthy Indians getting murdered one by one, sparking terror in the community. The film was true to the book, down to the finest detail which made me realize how remarkable Scorcese's work really is. Leonardo DiCaprio was excellent as Ernest and even looked just like the pictures of the real life Ernest in the book. I found his face took on the same qualities. Robert DeNiro as Hale, the wealthy uncle and friend to the Indians was just as brilliant. They both emobodied the roles and offered complex and interesting performances. The actress who played Mollie also looked similar to the real pictures in the book and her acting was so soulful and sparing. I found the movie to be art, with all the painstaking attention to detail in bringing this story to life. I have lately got into watching the old westerns and classic cowboy films and this film possessed similar tones: classic, true, unapologetic. They really don't make them like this anymore. This is a Scorcese film so it is long but also worthy of your time. I felt if I hadn't read the book or was familiar with the story, some of it might have got lost on me which would have been a shame. However, because of reading the book, I already knew the context of the film so it might have been interesting going into it blind.