This film is just garbage, absolute garbage. I had high hopes from the premise. But five minutes in and and the movie starts pandering with social garbage. Our protagonist has just destroyed a woman's life and her son comes after her calling her names and her reaction is to respond as if the cause of his outburst is mainly propelled by the fact that she is a woman, which of course automatically means that he thinks of her as being inferior...What? I mean, what kind of garbage is this? Let me give you some advice. If you want to portray someone, as a sexist pig, you have to give some context, some background so we can get behind our protagonist and her claims, or else she just becomes an obscene dislikeable mess. Generally the protagonist has to have some sort of redeeming quality, we as an audience have to care of her/him in some way, even if it's minute. What we got was probably the most dislikeable character ever made, to the point where the movie becomes a cringe mess. I watched this movie because of Rosamund Pike, I think she is a terrific actor and I just keep comparing this movie to Gone Girl. In contrast to this garbage, what we got there was a perfect balance between someone who was kind of an anti hero, kind of a villain, BUT you understood her background and there were times were you felt sympathy for her and even routed for her, even if she was a psychopath. Also, all the social commentary about genre stereotypes was perfectly portrayed and spot on and you could clearly see the problems. This is what a good script is supposed to look like. I just don't get why Netflix would greenlight a garbage like this and I have an extremely hard time understanding who would find this movie to be even adequate.
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