West Leaves Far Too Many Partly Explored Avenues & Questions Unresolved

*Attention Possible spoilers*


While this movie had the makings of a good, intelligent film, by its end, the viewer is left wondering what he's just watched:

Did the movie's makers milk the themes till the milk ran dry, or what!?

Viewers are led down the garden path, and before we can know what's really going on, the credits roll. Well thanks for that, but...

A movie's ending needs most of its elements to be resolved, otherwise the experience, in watching same, is ultimately very unsatisfying. Thus is the problem with West.

Did her husband live in truth, or not? What became of the man who seemed to follow her everywhere? Was he really innocent? And did she ever stop feeling paranoid; and why? These and other questions are all asked and are left completely unanswered, by the time the credits roll: A story is created, molded in some ways, but left unfinished in all the ways which should matter

This movie was, in other words, far too ambiguous, far too ambivalent & open-ended, that it all finally didn't much matter. So, I had to give it, alas, a middling rating.

Agreed?






Sandwiched between The Principle of Mediocrity & Rare Earth Theory, you should see The Fermi Paradox