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Their finest
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:date: 2020-09-02T00:26:18
:category: faith
:tags: review, blogComment, film

(my comments on the review of “`Their Finest`_” by Susan Wloszczyna)

I really wanted to like this film, it started nicely, and
generally I like it, but then there are points which just don’t
make sense at all. It is even worse when whole film is about
scriptwriting.

* Catrin periodically coming to her home just asked for the last
  visit make her finding her man, Ellis, dead under the rubble.
  If the authors wanted to make him unfaithful, I could imagine
  that dialogue with air-warden much better. Super embarrassed
  warden explains to Catrin that they found Ellis naked with
  a woman in bed (having sex is as good reason as any not to go
  to the bomb shelter), “we thought it was you, but apparently
  … it wasn’t.” The film can follow without any change … angry
  Catrin leaves and throws away her ring to the dustbin.

* Czech writer Karel Čapek once wrote an essay, how he was always
  feeling uncertain whether a death in a story is rising from
  the internal necessity of the plot, or whether the author just
  didn’t know what to do with a character. I am really afraid
  that the Tom’s death is from the second category, *mortem ex
  machina*. The author wanted tear-jerking finale, so he just
  got rid of the main lover. And of course, if Tom should be
  eliminated, then a thousand-ponder would work much better, than
  random stage piece.

.. _`Their Finest`:
   https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/their-finest-2017