MythosaAkira
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eris404 said:The first half is very good, the acting is excellent, and I think he is able to establish a sense of mounting dread. The film visually is gorgeous. Adrien Brody, Joachim Phoenix and Bryce Dallas Howard are wonderful. There is a genuinely shocking and unexpected moment in story that had the audience gasping (it was very well done).
I completely agree. If that scene is the one I'm thinking about, given the nature of what was involved, I think that made it even more horrific in its delivery (man, that wasn't too vague, was it? Trying not to spoil anything...)
Personally, I figured out the ending twist about half-way through or so, and I was really hoping that what I was thinking wasn't going to be how it turned out.
One thing I noticed (spoiler warning):
At times it seemed like some of the characters slipped out of their "period" speech into a more modern style. I'm used to this in many "period" movies, but I'm wondering if this was actually intentional in this film. In retrospect, I recall noticing this with some of the elders, but not with characters like Ivy. If this happened *only* with the elders, it might have been due to their having come from the "modern" world (as modern as the 70's was). I might be off here but if this was the case and it was intentional, it was a nice subtlety.
Anyway, it was a fun movie but not quite what I was hoping for.