Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t really buy into the turn this takes at the end, but there is a lot of strong (though absolutely not subtle) material here on the complexities of different kinds of relationships. Adams hits it out of the (dog) park.
I really hope this isn’t representative of how much the average teen movie in 2021 respects its audience’s intelligence…
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1BR has nothing to say about the ways in which cults function or indoctrinate; it exists solely to send its paper-thin characters from one gory bit of misfortune to the next. It’s basically impossible to get a sense of what Sarah feels about what’s happening to her, and her character only experiences growth because the plot requires it.
Maybe I shouldn’t have expected Martha Marcy May Marlene from this, but a…