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Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Red Road is recommended

I really liked Red Road.  I think it obliquely addressed issues of privacy (or lack thereof) while still presenting an engaging story.  I was a little disappointed with the ending.  I don't want to give away too much, but I appreciate a dark movie that follows through to the bitter end and doesn't have everything come up sunshine and roses.

It's the same kind of wuss-out ending that The Woodsman had. Come on!  There are bad people in the world - they don't all end up being redeemed in the end.  Both of these movies explored deep dark places of the human psyche and then tacked on a Disney ending.  Argh!

I still recommend it, though.  But just by a hair.  I like to imagine the movie ended differently. :)
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Kuky said ...
I keep forgetting that these movies are from the Philadelphia Film Festival. I keep looking for them to add to my queue but they don't come up in the search. :)
4/26/2007 12:34 AM

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