Hell, I'm going to round it up from a 6.something for several reasons. I think the role thrust upon Melanie Lynskey was not so easy to capture the weak/tough divide, that she gets flipped over by getting flipped off by the world. She's had enough, and that's a pretty relatable sentiment. Ms. Lynskey brought it all together for me, he kewpie doll voice was one small piece of that.
I reckon most everyone feels they've been cheated, jumped in line, bypassed and so forth if not much, much worse; and then reached out the authorities only to find out that the crime is too small to even be worth an effort towards justice (or maybe in corporate fashion too large often to be even looked into?). I accidentally saw the "Cliff Notes" and the director was indeed frustrated by a break-in (the stuff being stolen suck, but just the violation....of your "Home" that robs you of even more. In this notes, apparently he cites this as a companion film to "Falling Down."
But this being from a woman's point of view, it is a distinctly different film. I do think it's important that her day job is as a nursing aide, that's a world away from Michael Douglas' Dirty Harry in a starched shirt. The film has a lot of contributing roles, notably Elijah Wood numchukking without relying too much on the yuks on his way as a benevolent incel. I don't see too much comedy here, besides the sweet, lactose-and-generally aware and tolerant trophy wife. She eventually makes sure to tell the audience how to judge the lead characters, but I don't think we needed the hand, just the a sense of exoneration perhaps for being accomplices to crimes trying to rectify crimes.
Macon allows for a small counterargument on behalf of the powerless authorities and against vigilantism via Gary Anthony Williams. What else can I say? Snakes are evil, and so is Bernie Madoff (again this film is on a much lower level of larceny).
I reckon most everyone feels they've been cheated, jumped in line, bypassed and so forth if not much, much worse; and then reached out the authorities only to find out that the crime is too small to even be worth an effort towards justice (or maybe in corporate fashion too large often to be even looked into?). I accidentally saw the "Cliff Notes" and the director was indeed frustrated by a break-in (the stuff being stolen suck, but just the violation....of your "Home" that robs you of even more. In this notes, apparently he cites this as a companion film to "Falling Down."
But this being from a woman's point of view, it is a distinctly different film. I do think it's important that her day job is as a nursing aide, that's a world away from Michael Douglas' Dirty Harry in a starched shirt. The film has a lot of contributing roles, notably Elijah Wood numchukking without relying too much on the yuks on his way as a benevolent incel. I don't see too much comedy here, besides the sweet, lactose-and-generally aware and tolerant trophy wife. She eventually makes sure to tell the audience how to judge the lead characters, but I don't think we needed the hand, just the a sense of exoneration perhaps for being accomplices to crimes trying to rectify crimes.
Macon allows for a small counterargument on behalf of the powerless authorities and against vigilantism via Gary Anthony Williams. What else can I say? Snakes are evil, and so is Bernie Madoff (again this film is on a much lower level of larceny).