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I see some of you are taking my question very personally. I didn't mean to offend. Yes, I've been coming here for a while, but I've noticed there's a decided difference in the tone and maturity level of the posts over the course of the past year or so. And it's not getting any better. I wondered if there was a better place and some of you have been kind enough to offer some suggestions, which I intend to check out.
I'll leave here when I'm ready.
Actually, I'm ready.
Ciao.
RB
And therein lies the problem. Thank you. A post like that one is, to the apparent standards of this site, considered "Well written, well thought out, lengthy [is that an advantage], articulate [really?], and on topic."
Thanks. I'm definitely in the wrong place.
Cool, thanks, I'll check it out.
Thanks, I'll try it.
The childishness extends way far into the film boards.
I've asked a legitimate question. I'm sorry it annoyed you, I really am. My account is not a "sock account," whatever that is. It's a legitimate account and I'm a real human being.
"This door?"
"The outer door!"
"The outer door. Because there's nothing on this one."
What are you, twelve years old?
Interesting article here on trolling:
https://news.byu.edu/intellect/whats-in-a-troll-byu-research-examines-motives-of-internet-trolling#:~:text=Through%20an%20online%20survey%20completed,more%20likely%20to%20demonstrate%20trolling
"Through an online survey completed by over 400 Reddit users, the study found that individuals with dark triad personality traits (narcissism, Machiavellianism, psychopathy) combined with schadenfreude – a German word meaning that one derives pleasure from another’s misfortune – were more likely to demonstrate trolling behaviors."
You might want to talk to someone.
People who are devastated react in all sorts of different ways. Being devastated doesn’t mean you necessarily do the right thing. Frequently, people channel their grief into anger and quite often outwardly, as in this case. Love doesn’t mean you always do the right thing, either. Again, the father <i>thought</i> he was doing the right thing and he did it out of (misguided) love. Love doesn’t make one wise. Cripes, most times it’s the opposite! Neil’s father did what he did because he thought he was protecting Neil from a life of failure and guiding him toward a more secure future. Whether he also did it because he wanted to somehow live vicariously through his son, sure, I guess that's possible. But that doesn’t mean he didn’t love his son.
Will somebody be pointing a gun at your head forcing you to watch it?
I just have to ask: what possessed you to watch a grown-up film like this one in the first place?
I watched the film last night and am embarrassed to say that I hadn't thought of it that way. Now it seems very obvious. (I like to think that it would have struck me eventually.) It's simple, but I don't think you're simplifying it too much. It's very much like grief as the villain in "The Babadook."
Thanks for clueing me in.
"It's a simple story." Yes, I think that's part of what I liked about it too. I don't know, maybe people prefer more complex, convoluted stories where you're supposed to try to guess at who the killer is and expect (even demand) some kind of crazy twist. Give me a straightforward story well told. And that was this one. (Ironically, these are probably more difficult to pull off.)
I surely plan on watching it at least one more time, maybe more!
The husband was supposed to be an asshole. I don't see that as a "problem" with the film. That was his character. The "flip-flopping" was by design, too. Was he the killer? Maybe. Maybe not. That enhanced the tension.
I'll only reiterate what I said above. The story ("thin" or not, and I happen to really disagree with that characterization) was secondary to the mood of this movie. The film was all about the atmosphere. It was a piece of art.
What were its problems?
The pickle episode. Or "Citizen's Arrest." Those are my two favs.
For certain. The novella would have been forgotten, too. People read it today because of the movie. And it's ironic because Capote trashed the movie. He wanted Marilyn Monroe for Holly. Said the film was the most miscast of all times. Ha!
Now it's impossible to imagine Holly Golightly, film or book, without thinking of Audrey Hepburn.
My favorite. Yes, the style, but the spirit and the energy. I fall in love with her every time I watch this film.
She's not in the others' class.
She's in a class all her own.
I'm not going to say I know what the truth is, because I do not. (Nor does anyone on this site.) Probably, like always, it's somewhere in the middle.
That said, you might find the book <i>What Really Happened in Wuhan</i> by journalist Sharri Markson (HarperCollins, October 2021) of interest. I won't spoil it other than to say it might give you a few doubts about Fauci. It did for me, and I was sort of a fan of his. Either way, it's good reading.