brief movie detour

I find it hard to forgive a badly done ending in a movie, even though there are plenty of books where I go, "Well, the last hundred pages were bad, but I liked the first five hundred a lot!" or even, "the first 80 pages were good and probably what got this author an agent… too bad about the remaining 270 pages of this.” A bad movie ending makes me soooo much angrier and less generous towards the film, even though a film may have sooo many more technical accomplishments. 

 

I just finished Nightbitch the movie and lol, classic case of me going in knowing I wouldn't love it and finding even more things to not like once I was there. I find it SO funny how this movie is like, “the city artists are GAY and can’t understand the REAL pain of being stifled by a bad marriage and motherhood AND having to live in the suburbs…” It’s important for Amy Adams to be a mother and an artist, and not just a mother but a mother who loves being a mother and who feels Solidarity with other moms (take that!) AND she’s an artist who’s pushing boundaries of Art… I guess that last element is important because it’s an easy way of showing that she’s successful and that LADIES, mothers, WOMEN all over the world, you CAN have it all… I walked away from this thinking to myself, "Well, this is the power fantasy of the mediocre, I guess," and then felt bad for thinking it. 

 

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