• supernight52@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    I appreciate the perspective! Gotta say though, Jesus that’s some deep-level dark comedy that I just don’t understand. I was watching it as more of an art piece, and less of a commentary. I still don’t like it, but I never thought of it in this light.

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      17 hours ago

      Yeah I totally get it, I think the marketing did the film dirty and the pedigree of the actors and director didn’t help either plus all of the oscar nominations made people expect something different. It’s a very melodramatic and campy film, in the original script Daniel throws Eli down the bowling alley to knock down the pins after killing him.

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        17 hours ago

        Well, thanks for the new point of view. I might re-watch it at some point in life- if I do, I’ll try it with this mind set.