Seems like a common theme with stage plays.
The built up was pretty good - but goes wrong later on, with a dude going psycho without a legitimate reason. As such, the climax seemed off, came too soon and was anti-climatic.
Pitty, because the acting was good - it's just that the sudden outburst (the climax) was poorly written in.
The built up was pretty good - but goes wrong later on, with a dude going psycho without a legitimate reason.
I suppose all I can say is that it came off wrong somehow - you usually need a proper trigger for such outburst and it was missing here, hence leading to a moment where my immersion in the film/story/characters was destroyed. That's also why I said that it was due to poor writing, because a proper trigger has to written in.
shareNot knowing your dad is hardly a reason to go mental. If it were, half of America would be psychos. The subtext to this story: that you get damaged if you don't come from a traditional family with a man, his wife and any number of children is offensive. Neither politicians nor writers get to decide what a proper family is and who should or should not be damaged as a result.
The additional implication: that a promiscuous woman should be punished for her sins by a life of crushed dreams doing an ordinary job in Smalltown USA is astonishing. Note how the idea that her life as 'idyllic' is treated as unbelievable, ridiculous or self deceiving. And the penalty for the promiscuous man, the absent father? That he will be unloved and lonely till his dying day.
And the absurdity of the final scenes, where Mike finds peace, presumably after a night of cunnilingus with his wife, the logical consequence of attacking an elderly bisexual man you think is your father... well words fail me. Gay bashing boosts your virility and cures your sadness? And how much happier will you be the next morning when you discover that queer isn't really your dad after all!
Seriously, those smiles in the car going to the airport were ridiculous.
Textbook example of reading way too much into something.
shareI'm not sure how I feel about this movie but something was definitely off. All of these strong emotions which seemed shallow by the end - I don't know...something is missing.
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It went off the edge the second he went psycho, and that was to bad, because it could have been a good movie.
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