This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
The thing that I appreciated most about this film is how uncompromising it is with the story that it tells. No matter how distressing some of the images may be, the director doesn't choose to avoid them, as many others would. The reason for this is crystal, this is real life and the people that find themselves in similar shoes to Anne are unable to cower from what confronts them either.
I didn't go into this with any particular reason…
It's mentioned towards the end of the documentary that there are simply so many strings that one can follow when investigating these events and I think this is the reason why this film feels quite underwhelming.
The whole thing felt more like a trailer than a full investigation to me. I would have loved nothing more than to dive into 10 hour long episodes that break down every little element of the spider web and really uncover all of the…
So this is definitely a me problem, but ever since watching CMBYN I have since associated Guadagnino with the slow, minimalist style of filmmaking that is very raw and stripped back - basically everything that this film isn't. Hence I felt a little thrown off as Daniel Craig walks down the street in the slow motion with Nirvana playing (On a side note I do think it's odd to have music from after the film is set).
Furthermore the whole…
Despite how poorly it may have been displayed here I do genuinely believe in the colour-blindness of children and the ways in which their perceptions can easily be moulded in their juvenile years, even after coming from a extreme(ist) background.
I feel as if this story would have been better equipped to tackle this idea with a longer film in order to fully fledge out the journey that the relationships take.
Insert the obvious 'Literally me' joke here.
I think that this film is just incredibly sweet, with some really great performances by all three of the main actors. It would have been easy for a film from this era to have taken a more crass and uncaring look at a situation like this and try to play it solely for laughs. Instead the depiction is one that shows how kind and compassionate others can be.
I also really respected the…
