Review of Phoenix

Phoenix (II) (2014)
6/10
Plot holes
16 August 2015
Warning: Spoilers
While the performances were quite good, and the story overall was engaging enough for me to want to see it through to the end, there were holes. This is a woman whose face, we are told, is dramatically different, and whose husband does not recognize her. Yet, a person who had only seen her perhaps a couple of times in the past, at least more than a year before, recognizes her, and calls her by name. Also, how did her friend have the housekeeper in her employment from March to November 1945 if the friend was also Jewish? I think these spoiled the experience for me, as I was pondering them rather than being able to focus on the story. There were gaps in the back stories that needed to be filled. Some movies are too long. This one was short enough that a few more minutes to explain some of the problem areas mentioned above could have been resolved, and made this a better film.
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