Wednesday, July 31, 2024

Brief thoughts on The Dead Thing (2024) Fantasia 2024


Woman is having a series of hook ups through dating apps. After hooking up with one guy she meets the man of her dreams but he leaves her without saying a word. She decides to track him down. She should have left him alone.

This film really did not work for me. It was much too dull a film for me to connect.

There are lots of scenes of people staring at their phones, there are silences and there is lots of really dull stuff. Any number of of the scenes are shot so that people are supposed to be looking at other people but they clearly are not.  So little interesting happens that your mind wanders.

The performances are low key as to be un-emotive. No one seems to have any emotion. I know so many people are disappearing into themselves these days but putting it on the screen is like putting drying paint on screen.

And it kills me because there is a good story here, the problem there is only enough material here for about 20 minutes of screen time. It would be a great 20 minutes but not when spread out over 100 minutes.

A miss

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