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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
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