scottcoz wrote:
Oops - thanks for the catch, Worldsfinest! I didn't even realize there was a "The" in there. Edited the thread topic accordingly.
Anyway - also, a clarification...
My nitpick about the ending isn't the same as what I'm seeing in reviews. I was just fine with the overall theme and plot of the ending. It was a little bit of dialogue right before that last scene, which struck me as really out of place. Given that the whole thing did such a good job of depicting the language of the period, there was one bit of dialogue there that really seemed like they got it wrong. I'm guessing that, since the director/writer said he got so much of the dialogue from actual documents of the time, and clearly this was one bit of dialogue that he totally had to make up... he just didn't do a convincing job there.
I'd be curious what other people thought.
I
think I know what you're talking about (if it's the moment I'm thinking of, it did get a few chuckles in the theater), and I initially thought that as well, but then I thought that it might be one of those things where you'd be surprised to find out it actually was from the time period. Like maybe it actually came from a court testimony from someone claiming to have been in a similar conversation to the one in the film. Obviously I don't know for sure, but it seemed so bizarre that I thought it had to be authentic.
As for the movie, I loved it! I am seeing it being compared a lot to The Babadook and It Follows, and I can see why--psychological horror combined with measured amounts of shock/gore, slower pace, plot ambiguity, more complex female roles and feminist themes, etc. One review I read even speculated that it might grow into a larger overall trend in horror, one the reviewer welcomes more than other recent horror trends like "torture porn" and "found footage." I'm interested to see if that's the case, and if so, whether it will go through the normal pattern of imitators, deconstructions, etc. I think it would be GREAT at Shock Around the Clock, and if it does get booked, I'll definitely watch it again.
The theater where I saw it turned on subtitles for the sometimes hard-to-understand 17th century English; just curious if any other theaters did that and if anyone else who saw it thought they were or weren't necessary.