I dug it


Ari Aster influences, no shaky cam, and decent acting. 6.5/10

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6.5 is kinda mediocre tho'.

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Hey it's 2020. I take what I can get! ;-)

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I thought everyone did a decent job except Maggie (Holly Taylor). In the third act the scenes were pretty dramatic, however her acting was too chilled, not enough emotions for the situation. That's what spoiled the movie for me. It could've been better with some more to reality acting.

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Some questions from the only other thread, in case no one sees it there:

So he just captured and killed literally anyone who drove on the road by his house? They get one car driving there what, every 10 years or so? And what was his motive for doing that? I don't even agree with the OP "getting" why he wants the three boys dead--I get that he doesn't like their behavior and wants to kill them once he gets to know them, but why booby trap the road to force them to the house in the first place?!

And the "jig" would never be up if he didn't do all this nonsense and just lived with his "family" in peace like he wanted in the first place!

And why doesn't he even go through with the suicide pact? He wants to just live by himself in the middle of nowhere for the rest of his life? Why not keep Sarah alive and raise another family with her? That would make much more sense (in his mind, I would imagine). She didn't care about the truth or anything else so it seemed, she just wanted to be with him.

Also, what even happened to the first of the three kids? He drinks a mysterious liquid he finds in the house and goes into a coma--was that some sort of trap somehow? Or does the dude just keep a jar of poison in his room?

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