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Distracting Beauty

posted 8 years ago by jonhopper217
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The secondary characters all seem to come and go, but they end up being the core of the film. The brothers, the community, Lone Wolf, but most of all Aurelia. She was so strikingly beautiful, there was something that didn't fit. Even as the film drew to a close, it wasn't quite working and then all of the sudden, two, three, maybe even four scenes in a row, but one where her looks conveyed something else. I realize this was probably not the intention, because the entire cast was good looking, but she stood out and in the movie's most pivotal scene, it mattered. I always have trouble rating movies that are a 5-6 rating here (a solid C or 3/5 stars in my book), but then have a powerful ending.

[–] Local Hero 8 years ago

Hm, yes, Aurelia was lovely, but for me the three main members of the central family are the ones that are really strikingly beautiful. Irene Bedard is one of the most beautiful women on Earth, even when she's playing a character who's meant to be a bit haggard after years of drink and grief, and that adolescent girl was just so darling that every time I saw her I just wanted to hug her and protect her and tell her everything will be OK -- lol!

[–] ReganRebecca 7 years ago

Yes, I thought the actress who played Aurelia (Taysha Fuller) was really beautiful as well, but I thought it made sense character-wise that she didn't fit because unlike the other characters she already had her passport out of that small town and was going to go to school in L.A.

She's also Canadian and had a different accent from the other characters, which was maybe another reason why she would have stood out.