Quote (jadeoshbogosh @ May 27 2017 05:38pm)
Little column a, little column b. You nailed it.
@Brendan - I don't think I ever referred to it as scary. I haven't been scared in a movie since I was 11 years old. The movie from start to finish created a creepy and tense atmosphere. It was subtle and yet over the top at the same time. Was just a well done movie and glad I finally got around to watching it.
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I wouldn't say it was predictable. They did a great job of making it so painfully obvious that they were brainwashing these people and keeping them as slaves that I certainly didn't piece together that rich white people had somehow come up with a procedure to transfer their consciousness into younger and what that saw as superior bodies. I thought it was a neat and original concept and just made everything that much more creepy. I didn't understand why the matriarch/patriarch of the household were reduced to a housekeeper and groundskeeper. That was the one thing that I felt didn't make a damn bit of sense and that threw me out of the moment a bit during that final altercation.
They did so many things right though. Rose impressed me probably the most. Her eyes full of love and concern throughout the whole movie and then at the reveal they just instantly switch to the cold dead eyes of a sociopath, which she obviously was. I just thought that was perfect.
All in all, I'd say it was a 9 to 9.5/movie. Much better than I anticipated, since I feel that anything catering on racism or other liberal hot topics of the day, get unfair advantages when it comes to ratings. Figured it'd be another trash movie with an edge and that's why critcs ate it up. Glad to admit that I was wrong though and I'm glad I didn't let my bias stop me from watching this film.
agree 100% with your op
@ bolded, i felt the same but chalked it up to them not being 'reduced' to chores, but rather that was just what they enjoyed - being from a different time etc. Cleaning, cooking, and house work was all they probably knew and enjoyed.
Also, during the first formal interaction between the main character and the old black dude chopping wood, i remember a part of the conversation going something like "They got u out here doing the hard stuff hey?" and the old guy replied "only what i love".. at the time i thought it was him being hypnotized into being a slave and forced to love it. Obviously with hindsight from the big reveal, it makes sense now