2008 US Sam Mendes
✰ 1/2
If Sam Mendes rewrote a good book, it wouldn't be good, either. Alas: like a blood stain slowly filling out the front of a nice dress, the film ruins, smears, stains. Players do well to say impossibly-literate lines and attempt stylization, but else runs screaming towards "realism". Realism? Hardly. Melodrama, but Iz bin Done, dee-done Done [before]. Idea to adapt takes hit: 60s satire of 50s is expired, bad milk. Overwrought, mawkish, yes; but why so self-serious, Sam?
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I don't agree, there is more to that than the old rehash of suburban nightmare.
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