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Post by gingerale on Oct 13, 2021 12:09:09 GMT
We comb the same twitter tags/locate the same comments about BC, don't we! 😂
I'm so glad I have this to look forward to next month. TPOTD in December is so far away!
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Post by sgev1977 on Oct 19, 2021 13:39:29 GMT
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Post by mllemass on Oct 19, 2021 14:04:11 GMT
What a great description! They were so believable in their joy and suffering that I’m still not over it!
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Post by gingerale on Oct 21, 2021 7:19:46 GMT
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Post by sgev1977 on Oct 21, 2021 11:08:02 GMT
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Post by mllemass on Oct 21, 2021 11:54:57 GMT
As (we) predicted, this movie won’t be for everyone. There will be some people, like The Washington Post reviewer, who will watch it expecting a certain type of movie, and this isn’t it. And there may be more people put off by some of the images. After all, mental illness is not pretty, and some of the scenes in the movie can be disturbing. This reviewer uses the word “tasteless”, and another review, I think, said “offensive”. The same would probably be said about Will Sharpe’s series Flowers, too.
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Oct 21, 2021 13:15:14 GMT
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Post by sgev1977 on Oct 21, 2021 13:15:14 GMT
Well, the film is genuinely made by a filmmaker/artist with mental health issues. I mean if the problem is about some "identity" activism stuff.
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Post by mllemass on Oct 21, 2021 13:42:13 GMT
I know! The movie was made by someone with first-hand knowledge of mental illness, so I know he was sensitive to the images he was putting on the screen. The earlier review I had read, which called the movie “offensive”, referred, I think, to having such serious themes (anxiety, mental illness, cancer, loss, death, grief) side-by-side with the humorous silliness of the cat art stuff. I think the reviewer wanted the movie to decide what it wanted to be, because it couldn’t be both.
It reminded me a bit of the way Stuart: A Life Backwards handled the themes of abuse, addiction, homelessness and mental illness. It was a very funny movie dealing with some awful stuff.
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Oct 21, 2021 14:45:17 GMT
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Post by sgev1977 on Oct 21, 2021 14:45:17 GMT
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Post by mllemass on Oct 21, 2021 15:08:47 GMT
The EW reviewer has the same problem with the movie mixing the light with the heavy:
And why does the review keep referring to Emily as Edith?
The reviewer gives the movie a C+, the lowest score she seems to give, and the same as she gave to Cry Macho - a movie a friend of mine told me was so bad that she walked out of it. She told me that she wished she had read the terrible reviews it had gotten before deciding to go see it.
This same reviewer gave TPOTD an A-.
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