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Kærlighed for voksne (2022)
This is trash
I don't understand most of the reviews on here. This movie is trash. The acting is terrible, especially from the main leads, the over-use of sinister music is laughable and the plot feels like taken from a 90's B movie.
There is no reason for the story to be told by the cop to his daughter and his story doesn't even add up: if he was so sure who was responsible for the crimes committed but couldn't prove it, why did he stand and watch like an idiot when the murderer hurried to get rid of the evidence right in front of him?
So why does so many reviewers praise this film? Are they trolling us?
The Goldfinch (2019)
Lacks passion and respect for the original story
Imagine writing the script for this film and totally butcher the perfect novel it's based upon. The movie is so lackluster, so totally made without passion - I find it to be a great disappointment and at times nearly insulting. The pacing feels awfully off and the characters lack depth. I'm glad I've read the book so I could fill in the gaps.
The actors feel stiff and weirdly cast, except Sarah Paulson that stands out to me as a much more charismatic and believable character than the rest. I'm sad that we didn't get to see Theo's mother earlier, get to hear her voice, understand why the painting was so important to Theo. I really wish we would have gotten to see the museum scenes - Theo chemistry between Theo and his mother, their morning at home before going to the museum, Theo's mother's feelings towards the meeting with the principle, the explosion at the museum - chronologically and not as short snippets throughout the film.
I think that the switching between past and present was made beautifully in the novel, but now some of the time jumps feels too cropped and sudden. Sometimes I don't even understand why some scenes are there.
When I read the book for the first time, I imagined it as a perfect mini series, where the viewer would be given time to get to know the characters, the painting, the increasing tension and cracks in Theo's life towards the end. As soon as I heard it was made into a movie I had doubts about them being able to crop the story so short. The Goldfinch is one of my favourite novels and Theo's story deserves to be told the way it was supposed to.