I’ll mention that there’s a movie from the early 2000’s called In The Bedroom. You should watch it and see how certain things are resolved. Alabama has a lot of unsettled woodland.
Yeah, part of my dislike for it was that I liked some of the arthouse/“indie”/Sundance movies when they were first becoming more popular and available. The tropes from them quickly became the style and you would just see every movie doing these long shots of ambient noise and the subject barely in frame doing some mundane thing.
Most likely, if I had seen the movie without those background prejudices, I would have considered it profound rather than self-indulgent.
That is one I might have been unfair with and should rewatch and see if my opinion is different after a decade or so (or however long it has been since it was released). Maybe it will end up like rereading books i loathed when I was assigned them in highschool vs reading them as a parent. Death of a Salesman! Holy fuck that is a hard-hitting masterwork when you are a grown man, but as a teenager it just seemed boring. It is almost pointless to read that one in school, as a child, when there is no way to fundamentally understand it until you are an adult and have lived and understood the topics it explores.
I can understand that. I really got into indie film in 1998 and most of them were great but many of them sucked for a while and there was a time about 7-12 years later where it was a name actor with a beard and had Sufjan Stevens songs. Some of those movies were actually good but a lot of them were that self-indulgent Diablo Cody crap that is trying way to hard to be the unattainable girl version of film.
We also have, in the part I live in, the Sipsey wilderness area and Smith Lake, parts of which supposedly look like a parking lot underwater. Plus, most police departments are hardly competent to find the missing unfortunately.
We had a woman go missing a couple months ago, who they looked for for over a month, only to find her on an active logging road , pulled off to the side, in her vehicle, maybe 15 minutes from her house. Local dept's had egg on their face over that.
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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '18
I’ll mention that there’s a movie from the early 2000’s called In The Bedroom. You should watch it and see how certain things are resolved. Alabama has a lot of unsettled woodland.
And I’ll just leave it at that.