SPOILERS sorta. I enjoy it, but but but...
Yes, the acting is splendid. Yes, the characters are interesting to watch (if you’re not in the mood for a bang-bang-explosion-oiled-bodies kinda flick). Yes, the cinematography is beautiful.
But it seems that the plot has forgotten an extremely important point, which makes the suspension of disbelief just too big. Not to mention a lot of other improbables, like a fugitive cleaning gutters in full view of endlessly curious neighbours, but I speak of a broader issue here
The big note for me is what you all too often see in movies. Apparently someone has forgotten to see exactly how women are like, well, people. As in, you would NOT give a threatening total stranger a ride, especially if you’re a disturbed single woman, probably unable to defend yourself, with a young teenager in the house and said stranger appears strong, grim, and is bleeding. NO WOMAN WOULD EVER DO THIS. Even if coerced into the car, you would definitely try to find a way to signal to your neighbours in the small town – where everyone knows your car, who you are, and hmmm, why are you driving with a total stranger in the back seat with your son??? You do NOT (or, it is EXTREMELY RARE to) fall in love with the person who may be threatening yourself and your child, especially after said person has tied you up in a rather scary way. No women ANYwhere in the world is foolish enough to trust someone like that right off the bat. NO woman, ANYwhere. (We NEVER know if a man – even one known to us – will suddenly become abusive or try to molest us. Go on, ask any woman you know. You could call it “Schrodinger’s rapist.”) And though I’m not a parent, I would surmise that no parent would trust said threatening total stranger to “bond” with their child.
Do they think women are idiots, droids, or what? (I know, I know, the book’s author is a woman, but ya don’t have to be a man to be submerged in patriarchy.)
Oh, and lest we forget: Adele has come completely apart because she can’t have another child. Wait... what? Her ENTIRE PERSONHOOD is fuhkaked because she can’t be a 2-time mother? Are women THAT one-dimensional, that if you can’t be a parent, your life is worthless? Really??
So if I can just shove all these issues under the rug, I can enjoy the film because it’s lovely. But that’s one huge hump of an elephant under that there rug.