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over 3 years ago

Things Heard & Seen

a review by Kamurai

Good watch, could watch again, and can recommend.

I'll be honest, I was a little tired when I watched it, but I had a good time.

This is a good movie that I feel could have been a great movie, but I feel like its concept causes a distraction from it's own story.

The movie does some clever things that make it a little hard to not spoil it, but giving the main character debilitations doesn't automatically make her more sympathetic. I'm sure it makes her more relatable to certain audience and even more realistic a person, as a lot of her characteristics are the result of an unhappy relationship, but it doesn't really drive the story on its own.

Once the momentum of the story, the house, and the characters start to build, the movie really becomes something else. There seems to be a new trend in movie making, that this story shares, where the story ends and a new story begins. Its not quite the same as having a 4th act or having 2 3-act stories. It's close to having a short sequel in the same movie, and that's definitely what it feels like.

This gets a lot of points for being interesting and having a great cast and delivery, but it's just not..."great" as a whole.