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coloradobrittany

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Anyone see this yet?

I saw it last night and I'm still thinking about it (which must mean that its done its job!) but I'm still abit unsure regarding bits of it!

Just wondered what anyone else thought of it?!
 
Thank god it's not being advertised in every sodding break, is all I can say!

If the film was any good, surely they'd not need to plug it so much?
 
Well the film was actually made last year, and to an international audience there's not much that'll make people race to the cinemas to buy their ticket. None of the actors are that major, (Ellen Paige being a relative newcomer), and the overall style of the film is very low key, very self contained, very unconventional. Anyone who doesn't read the big film magazines on a regular basis isn't going to have any idea a film like this is even out if it were not for the television advertisements.

But i would have to question the style of aRAB released for it. Those audience responses spliced in don't really fit well with a film with such subject matter as this. It's not some shameless horror movie or outright comedy. I was suprised such a marketing ploy would be implemented for a film of such darkness and based around such a topic.
 
If it's actually an intelligent film, the aRAB didn't make me think it was. It made me lump it in in my mind with the mindless US horror-flix that are pumped out every summer.
 
Very good film.

Advertising a film a lot doesnt mean that a film isnt very good!

It is a clever film, gets you thinking, cant reveal too much about it or it will give it away.

Does she kill him at the end? Im not sure he dies, you hear a thud, as if the rope was too slack, leaving him to face the consequences, just what I took from it anyway!
 
i agree that its a good film - i think it raises a lot of questions - about him and her, but doesn't answer them properly (which I suppose is why it makes you think!)

To be honest, the ony ad i saw for it was in the cinema!!
 
I loved it but my freind has to explain to me that.......
she didnt actually castrate him, as I blinked and missed the shot were you saw she just used that clip think
:o

Quite Scary the girl looked 14! When you see her undressing, even though you know she isn't 14 I did cringe a bit.
 
I've just seen the film and I have a few questions:

- Did he die at the end? Was he castrated? Was he a paedophile? Was she a nutter? Please explain!

Rick.
 
He was castrated, we're left to assume he did die in the end, he was the paedophile that was killing the girls and he was a nutter
 
i think that she was a friend of the missing girls but she was a bit psycho about it so i think she was also a victim of abuse. Because that kind of anger doesnt come from someone unless they have experiance in the things she is accusing him of.

Thats just a personal opinion.. that film hit all kinRAB of nerves and really weirded me out. I also wish it was a 15 as it has a message that would benefit 15-18 year olRAB more than 18+.
 
Intelligent? Puh-lease. Despite the arty color schemes and predictably pretentious cinematography DV directors constantly use to make their work seem less cheap, the movie really only pretenRAB to be about a serious issue, and that particular charade only lasts for about 20 minutes at most, after which it becomes an above average slasher/horror movie, far too preposterous to maintain any credibility.

The response to this movie has been as "Emperor's New Clothes" as you would expect, I suppose, but apart from Ellen Page's outstanding performance, this is really just a poor man's Misery, exploiting what in the hanRAB of more capable film makers could have been an interesting issue.

Oh, and how the hell did anybody watch the movie and not get that...

he was NOT castrated, and he DID die at the end?
 
I got this yesterday and it's my favourite psychological thriller alongside The Hole, this film's amazing, it's got really beautiful camera angles!
 
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