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It's good, but if you don't enjoy long movies then I recommend you wait for the DVD.
Yes, it reminded me a lot of the Witch, especially Dani's indoctrination at the end.
>Why show only half the woman's face?
I think to make the image a bit more mysterious (withholding reveal of her whole face).
The way the whole picture of what's happening at the festival isn't revealed to the main characters until the very end of the film.
1. We never saw how the Tunnelers behaved before the government abandoned them. Red said that they went crazy after being trapped down there alone for generations so they might not have originally acted like zombies but only started to behave that way after many years of isolation.
2. I think the theory is that Jason was switched when the family went to the summer house the previous year. That would explain why he decided to play in the closet despite having been trapped in there just one year earlier. It would also explain why they chose to burn Tunneler-Jason's mouth shut so that he couldn't talk and reveal he was the original. Also, at the beginning of the movie Jason had to be coaxed to eat (maybe he was raised on rabbit), he was considered weird by the twins, he was drawn to the hall of mirrors in a parallel to little Ade, and he was building tunnels in the sand during his family's trip to the beach. The theory is that he was switched when he was trapped in the closet a year earlier.
3. You can't teach a feral human language after the age of 12 due to a decrease in neural plasticity. Read more about it here, it's pretty interesting: [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_deprivation[/url]
4. It always went down, but when there was a blackout it stopped entirely. That's how little Ade was able to climb up. The Tunnelers also probably climbed up during the blackout that occurred at the end of the first act.
What's the twist? You can hide it under a spoiler tag.
Cuarón actually explained in an interview that the movie is a semi-autobiographical film about his childhood growing up in an upper-class Mexican family. He didn't delve into the backstories of the adults because he wanted to keep the feeling of a child's POV: Shielded from the harshness of reality, not entirely understanding why things are happening, only knowing the adults in your life on a superficial level, etc.
Here's the interview: [url]https://www.bustle.com/p/is-roma-based-on-a-true-story-the-netflix-film-is-deeply-personal-to-director-alfonso-cuaron-15506701[/url]
[quote]Would you have accepted the presence of a female lieutenant leading that unit of paratroopers?[/quote]
Yes, I would've. Because if the presence of zombies didn't bother me then why would the presence of a woman?
The movie didn't have "elements of fantasy", it [i]was[/i] fantasy, period. None of the characters were based on real people. Their mission to win D-Day by destroying a radio tower was completely fictional. And don't even get me started on the serum and the impossibility of its effects.
This film might as well have taken place in an alternate universe where the rules (and historical prejudices) of our world don't apply.
In fact, let's say it did. There, are you happy now?
How should they have handled the presence of re-animated corpses?
Same here!
The long takes (paratrooper scene, escape from the lab) were thrilling and excellently done.
The characters (especially Boyce and Tibbet) were endearing.
Chase's transformation scene had me at the edge of my seat.
Just an all-around great time at the movies.
I give it a 6/10.
It's stylistically unique, the performances are memorable, and it has some entertainingly humorous moments, so I think it's worth seeing. The downsides are the simplistic plot (the story is in sore need of some places where our expectations are subverted) and the pacing (which is definitely slower than it should be in an obvious attempt to make more time to revel in the film's trippy cinematography).
Style over substance is the cardinal sin of this film, but the style is certainly worth checking out!
Also, if you're a fan of black comedy and gore (think Sam Raimi) I wouldn't miss it.
[quote] I don’t think she thought that one through. [/quote]
Yeah, she had gone off the deep end at that point.
I think she truly believed that if she "published a book with [his] name on it" that the world would be so grateful to her for protecting his talent that all would be forgiven.
She's definitely going to prison.
I think she gave up when she heard him tell the police he was being kidnapped because it made it clear to her that he understood the seriousness of the crime and could not be swayed by promises of swimming and ice cream like other five-year-olds may have been. He was too smart for her to reason him out of understanding that he needed to be protected from her.
[quote]How did you feel about Lisa taking a shine to little Jimmy and motivating him to write down/ recite his poems? [/quote]
I think if she'd just stuck to encouraging him the way a normal teacher should (helping him write down poems in class, letting him share his work with the other students, putting together a collection of his poems to give to his father/uncle as a keepsake, asking his father if she could submit his work to an anthology of children's poetry, etc.) there would have been no problem.
I wrote stories and poems when I was in elementary school. My 2nd-grade teacher invited me to stand up in front of the classroom and read my stories to the class every day. My 1st-grade teacher submitted one of my poems to an anthology and it was published. My parents were very happy with this and had no problems.
Where Lisa went wrong was doing things like sneaking Jimmy to Manhattan without his father's knowledge and trying to kidnap him and run away to Canada. She took it way further than she had to if her true intention was just to nurture his creativity. What she really wanted was [i]ownership[/i] of his talent, and of him, which was just creepy and wrong.
I guess she felt like if she couldn't have any talent herself, this was the next best thing.
I agree 100%. Seeing his planet be destroyed drove him insane and caused him to fixate on his unexecuted plan to save Titan. He was driven mad; that's why he's so convinced he has to go through with the scheme on a universe-wide scale.
It's like how the Joker went from being a comedian who wanted to make people laugh as a career to a lunatic who wants to make people laugh to death. It's a crazier version of his original self.
[quote]Ever thought about that, Thanos??[/quote]
Thanos doesn't care. That's why they call him the Mad Titan, not the Sensible Titan.
He's delusional in that he thinks everyone will be happy about what he's done after the fact and see the value of it ("watch the sun set on a grateful universe"). He calls Gamora's planet a "paradise" after he killed 50% of the population there.
So he's assuming that after everyone sees how wonderful life is with half the population of their planet dead, they will agree with his way of thinking and take steps to keep their own population under control from that point forward, no longer allowing it to grow unchecked.
Anybody who took time out of their day to come on the Captain Marvel discussion board obviously cares...
God only knows when it started. But fuck anyone who tries to make excuses for statutory rapists and child molesters.
She met the kid when he was SEVEN and texted to Rain Dove that he'd been sending her unsolicited nude photos since he was TWELVE that she NEVER reported to his parents or to police.
The only people who don't find that both suspicious and disgusting are suspicious and disgusting themselves.
We'll never know, as he didn't leave a note.
I wouldn't be surprised if finding out that his girlfriend was a child molester pushed him over the edge though.