Ratings: 5.4/10Film Class: C
Genre: Drama
This movie just didn't work for me. The sound was its greatest demerit because it felt like a dubbed movie. Not sure if it's due to their muffled voices, the theatre's bad sound system or the subconscious split-second detachment of words to lips visuals, but it made the movie distant and drew me away from empathizing with the characters.
A stepmother, haunted by the lost of her child tries to make ends meet for her relationships with her stepson, her husband, her husband's ex-wife and her father. There were so many issues in her life, and the way she handled them were too extreme. I believe it was the scriptwriter's intention to bring across the realism of the characters, that "real life" characters had their own flaws, but the end result was undesirable. It felt as if the characters could wilfully hurl nasty remarks at one another because they knew it wouldn't matter as long as they apologise in the next scene.
The only scene I liked was the ending sequence. *spoilers ahead* I felt it was apt to discuss religion, in a crooked sense, to bring that glimmer of hope to address the main issue in the film. It was really sweet in a way. The rest just felt like a re-enactment of the mood I felt during Revolutionary Road, just not as well scripted and well acted compared to the latter. Contrary to the movie's testimonials, I think this was one of the worst performances by Natalie Portman. During this sudden influx of Natalie Portman's onscreen appearances, I sure hope she'll be able to deliver a more outstanding performance in the upcoming movie Thor, comparable to what she was able to accomplish in Black Swan and Star Wars.
Too much dialogue, boring pace of story development, horrible sound production, disappointing performances, chalky and unnatural scripting. This movie premiere experience at Serangoon Nex was classy and good, but not the movie itself.
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