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Apples Never Fall (2024)
Risible
Absolutely unwatchable. Another Australian story converted, yet again, to an American setting with truly obnoxious characters, trite dialogue and weak plotting. The book wasn't literature but at least provided a decent read. Sam Neil needs to give it up if this is the best he can do. What an insult - Lianne Moriarty should be hung, drawn and quartered for allowing this bastardisation of her Australian story. Why not set it where it belongs and allow excellent Aussie actors to demonstrate their acting chops? She certainly doesn't need the money ffs. Shame on you Ms Moriarity for this faithless act. But if you must make it American try at least to make it good.
Hvítur, hvítur dagur (2019)
Offensive
I found this film really quite offensive and had to check when it was made to see if it was a number of years ago but no, 2020. A man is allowed to be a brutal monster- with no apparent consequence for him and he is rewarded, as are the (male?) viewers, with a full frontal female nude at the end. Good grief. This just beggars belief. It does not matter one jot that this is a man suffering grief. Are we to take from this study that an emotionally frozen man can beat up, abuse, threaten and injure everyone around him just because his wife has died? How about having a character who might ask why his wife had an affair instead of brutalising her lover?
This film could only have been made by a man and most of the glowing reviews seem to come from other men. Have they no insight at all?