“All Of Us Strangers”
Here is the full film. Our dear Paul and Jamie Bell are great. Jamie Bell is great in particular because he had the least to do but stands out so much in that one scene. He’s great.
That man old enough to be our dear Paul’s father is the lead and good too but not as good as Jamie or Paul.
You are welcome.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 102 | April 8, 2024 2:41 AM
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Just watched it hours ago and am completely undone. I don't even care that it's received no AA nods, it'll be forever a great movie in my heart.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | January 26, 2024 9:09 PM
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R1 you claimed to have watched it 3 or 4 different times on different threads.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | January 26, 2024 9:11 PM
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I’m a-scared. Is this going to download child pornography to my computer as I watch the movie?
by Anonymous | reply 3 | January 26, 2024 9:28 PM
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Don’t understand the Andrew Scott hype. He has no on-screen charisma and, frankly, he’s quite plain physically.
Paul Mescal was haunting. He nailed his part. Claire Foy was also exquisite.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | January 26, 2024 9:51 PM
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Andrew Scott was fine but he definitely didn’t deserve an Oscar nod for this
by Anonymous | reply 6 | January 26, 2024 10:27 PM
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It completely floored me too. I'm glad I didn't know too much about it before going in and thought it wholly stunning.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | January 26, 2024 10:30 PM
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I like Scott at times but he's a very "busy" actor in performance.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | January 26, 2024 10:34 PM
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I just finished watching this thanks to the OP. It was wonderful and sad. I enjoyed it a lot. Thank you OP. It was a great watch on a Friday.
by Anonymous | reply 10 | January 27, 2024 12:57 AM
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Thanks, OP. Watched it tonight, by myself. I knew going in my husband wouldn’t be able to handle it—he doesn’t like “sad” or “artsy”..
I am glad I didn’t go see it when it played here for 2 weeks. I would have been embarrassed if anyone else heard me sobbing throughout. Having lost both parents, a lot of it really hit me.
Great little film.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | January 27, 2024 3:43 AM
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OP your poor Paul will be losing revenue thanks to this!
Seriously though, thanks for posting.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | January 27, 2024 4:47 AM
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That old man is 20 years younger than you, you old withered desert hag.
People should see this amazing movie on the big screen.
All actors are superlative. This is film making at the highest level.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | January 27, 2024 3:34 PM
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Lmao. This is a very small and very quiet movie that can be seen at home. This isn’t a fucking blockbuster that needs to be seen in a theater 😂😂😂😂
Such a clown.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | January 27, 2024 3:35 PM
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Poo Shoes ^
Desert untouchable old bag
by Anonymous | reply 17 | January 27, 2024 3:48 PM
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Thanks OP. Strange mood now to start a Saturday. But I liked it very much. Andrew is good but not up to all the hype. Paul is very good. I don't know if I understand the ending. How long had Harry been in his bedroom or was the relationship totally imagined like the parents? What did I miss?
by Anonymous | reply 18 | January 27, 2024 4:28 PM
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The parents weren’t imagined. He could see them the way he could see Harry. Harry died that first night he knocked on Adam’s door while drunk. After Adam turned him away he drank himself to death. You know this because when Adam finds him rotting body he’s in the clothes from that night and still holding the bottle of alcohol he had that night. They show us that so we know when/how he died.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | January 27, 2024 4:32 PM
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Ok I didn't notice the sweatshirt and bottle. That makes it all the sadder.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | January 27, 2024 5:00 PM
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When Adam went into Harry’s apartment, he found some ketamine lines among with drug baggie. Harry did some ketamine and drunk a whole bottle of whiskey and then passed out and choked on his own vomit. When Harry and Adam talked in Harry’s kitchen, Harry said he could “feel it here, in my throat”.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | January 27, 2024 5:23 PM
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I may rewatch again (saw it twice already) today. Thanks OP
by Anonymous | reply 22 | January 28, 2024 6:18 PM
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This helps explain it all.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 23 | January 29, 2024 10:54 PM
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Who needs it explained? It’s not as complex as some want to make it seem.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | January 29, 2024 10:56 PM
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R24 is a very stupid person who overestimates his own “insight”
by Anonymous | reply 25 | January 30, 2024 12:04 AM
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I thought it was just okay. The acting was good - Jamie Bell especially. But the story reeks like a bad M. Night Shyamalan script (I See Dead People) when a tale about actual circumstances forcing Adam to finally come out of his guilt-ridden shell would have been much more meaningful. I can't believe it gets 96% on Rotten Tomatoes.
As R16 says. "This is a very small and very quiet movie that can be seen at home. This isn’t a fucking blockbuster..)
imho
by Anonymous | reply 26 | January 30, 2024 3:52 AM
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I love this movie because of our dear Paul.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | February 3, 2024 11:44 AM
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I thought it was well-acted and engaging. I wasn’t moved at all, however—and I have a dead parent and lived thru the peak plague years.
by Anonymous | reply 28 | February 4, 2024 2:39 AM
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I thought it was quite moving and I did lose a parent in childhood. Coming from a Japanese novel, the ghost play seems understandable. I thought the entire cast was strong. There isn't much to explain.
by Anonymous | reply 29 | February 4, 2024 3:12 AM
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Watched it today and thought it was very good. Not Oscar worthy but comparable to Weekend, Haigh's debut. All 4 leads were good. I guess the morale of the story is we shouldn't be afraid to let people in. Which will resonate with a lot of gay men, not just of Andrew Scott's generation but universally.
by Anonymous | reply 30 | February 4, 2024 5:10 PM
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Wonderful 80s British soundtrack too.
by Anonymous | reply 31 | February 4, 2024 5:11 PM
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For anyone interested on the themes of the movie, rather than bloviating their stupidity like many of posters on this thread , this interview with director and writer is very informative
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 33 | February 4, 2024 5:52 PM
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Different people are allowed to have their own takeaways on this movie r33.
It’s about letting new people in and learning to let go of the past. Learning to cope and forgive yourself as well as others.
by Anonymous | reply 34 | February 4, 2024 5:58 PM
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It seems like that is that entire movie. I'm surprised.
by Anonymous | reply 35 | February 5, 2024 12:13 AM
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It is coming to Hulu on February 22
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 36 | February 6, 2024 9:26 PM
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I just watched the trailer on Hulu, and knowing what I know about the movie from the other "Disney fucked up the release" thread, I'm already in tears.
by Anonymous | reply 37 | February 13, 2024 1:44 AM
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I saw this at the cinema a few weeks ago. It's still fresh in my mind. I thought it deserved Academy nominations.
by Anonymous | reply 38 | February 13, 2024 1:53 AM
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It didn’t deserve nominations.
by Anonymous | reply 39 | February 13, 2024 2:25 AM
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No. It’s ultimately only so so.
by Anonymous | reply 40 | February 13, 2024 2:57 AM
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Yes, it did deserve to be Oscar nominated but let’s face it, it was too weird and too intelligent and too gay.
by Anonymous | reply 41 | February 13, 2024 3:34 AM
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Poor Andrew Scott asked inappropriate questions during a BAFTA interview, about another mans cock!
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 42 | February 19, 2024 12:36 PM
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If I made films, I would look to cast Jamie Bell at any opportunity.
by Anonymous | reply 43 | February 19, 2024 1:07 PM
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R42 Andrew Scott handled the situation well, as well as looking good in that red suit.
The interviewer should be charged with verbal assault.
by Anonymous | reply 44 | February 19, 2024 1:14 PM
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On the plus side, the hopeless hack will forever now be seen as a pathetic creep. Perhaps the BBC will soonish see fit to deploy his talents overseas, offscreen.
by Anonymous | reply 45 | February 19, 2024 1:45 PM
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One more day until this streams on Hulu.
by Anonymous | reply 46 | February 21, 2024 12:52 AM
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The shaking and crying starts at midnight.
by Anonymous | reply 47 | February 21, 2024 7:38 AM
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I’ll be buying All Of Us Stranger on iTunes.
It’s a pity that there’s no plans to manufacture a blue ray.
Maybe the Criterion Collection will issue one.
by Anonymous | reply 48 | February 21, 2024 1:16 PM
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I found the movie interesting, but not extraordinary.
by Anonymous | reply 49 | February 21, 2024 1:47 PM
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Just now, I spent $14.99 to buy All Of Us Strangers on iTunes.
The first movie that I have bought in over two years.
It’s a masterpiece. Best film of 2023, only edging out Zone Of Interest by a small margin. I don’t need to rewatch Zone Of Interest again, but I will watch All Of Us Strangers at least once a year.
by Anonymous | reply 51 | February 22, 2024 6:12 AM
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Zone of Interest was boring as HELL.
by Anonymous | reply 52 | February 25, 2024 7:28 AM
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I'd have turned Harry away too if he'd have shown up at my door drunk. No thanks! I don't do drunks. Especially ones I've never met before.
by Anonymous | reply 53 | February 25, 2024 8:01 AM
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I hate to encourage the Paul Mescal stalker, but, yes, it was VERY good. A beautifully made meditation on loss and grief that almost plays like a thriller even though it's actually a very quiet and intimate film. It's streaming on Hulu now.
by Anonymous | reply 54 | February 25, 2024 10:29 AM
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Who would Andrew replace in the final 5 if they Oscar-nominated him?
by Anonymous | reply 55 | February 25, 2024 11:23 AM
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R53 As attractive as I find Paul Mescal I would have turned him down too if he was wasted. But I would have instead suggested we get together another night so we can meet properly on better terms.
by Anonymous | reply 56 | February 25, 2024 11:35 AM
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[quote]But I would have instead suggested we get together another night so we can meet properly on better terms.
Exactly where Adam's imagination and the figure of Harry soon led him.
by Anonymous | reply 57 | February 25, 2024 11:56 AM
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R55 Andrew Scott should have been right nominated for an Oscar by replacing fellow fag Bradley Cooper
by Anonymous | reply 58 | February 25, 2024 1:23 PM
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BTW, I'm surprised the eldergays haven't heaped praise upon Andrew Haigh for writing a scene in which a fellow gen-x'er expresses ambivalence about being labeled "queer". I thought of DL the moment I heard that dialogue.
by Anonymous | reply 59 | February 25, 2024 3:02 PM
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i recall that quote and even used it in a conversation a couple of days ago
by Anonymous | reply 60 | February 25, 2024 3:05 PM
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I guess I have the basic Hulu, because about 10 minutes in there was a commercial, which completely interrupted the delicate fabric of the movie. So, I went on the torrent site and got it without commercials, a much better experience.
by Anonymous | reply 61 | February 25, 2024 4:48 PM
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Fuck Hulu, even for $1/mo it's not with it.
by Anonymous | reply 62 | February 25, 2024 6:19 PM
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Where did you torrent it from R61 & R62. I'm afraid to watch it in case it's too sad.
by Anonymous | reply 63 | February 25, 2024 6:27 PM
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R63 the OP has a link to the whole movie
She’s done it for you.
by Anonymous | reply 64 | February 25, 2024 6:34 PM
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It's not chokingly sad like Brokeback or Of an Age but there's a pervasive melancholy throughout.
by Anonymous | reply 65 | February 25, 2024 9:37 PM
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Get back to me when you've lost a lover of over 40 years, r65.
by Anonymous | reply 66 | February 25, 2024 9:42 PM
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But that's not what this movie was about.
Whereas Brokeback and Of an Age were about that kind of loss. And thus I was more likely to sob (Mary!) during those and still felt a weight of sadness with Strangers.
by Anonymous | reply 67 | February 25, 2024 9:52 PM
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It was a really good film and quite powerful, I was moved during parts of it. But this is hardly a cinema masterpiece. It was good.
by Anonymous | reply 68 | February 26, 2024 11:21 AM
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To me this read like a long, extended episode of BLACK MIRROR. It was almost like a short film.
by Anonymous | reply 69 | February 26, 2024 11:22 AM
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The film gets a lot of mileage out of brooding, ambient music and slow, pull-out zooms.
by Anonymous | reply 70 | February 26, 2024 11:23 AM
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The inflated hype of this film right now is similar to the online chatter about SALTBURN a month ago.
by Anonymous | reply 71 | February 26, 2024 11:25 AM
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It felt like an Ishiguro novel to me, which makes sense in the context of the very loose adaptation of the Japanese novel Haigh used. It seemed almost purgatorial, the monolithic mostly empty apartment building. The first ten minutes of the movie outlining the main character’s isolation and loneliness, like so many gay men. It’s interesting to me that Haigh focuses so much on loneliness and isolation when he himself is in a long term relationship, married and has kids. His issues are very similar to gay men my age.
I thought he was striving for something that he didn’t quite achieve unfortunately: artistic catharsis. It came really close, but didn’t quite get there. Some of the dialogue with the parents was too pat and on the nose, despite really lovely small scaled performances from Bell and Foy. Mescal is really good, and worked hard to create that connection with Scott. While Scott doesn’t really appeal to me as an actor, I appreciated what he did and what he was going for.
All that being said, Haigh is an extremely gifted writer and filmmaker, and he takes gay men of a certain age’s issues seriously and tries to make art out of them and I deeply appreciate that. I think he’s got the potential for a truly great Oscar winning script and film, and I hope that he gets the support, time, and money to make it.
by Anonymous | reply 72 | February 26, 2024 1:28 PM
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[quote]Some of the dialogue with the parents was too pat and on the nose
R72 - I hear what you're saying, but I felt like this was intentional since the dialogue was just in the imagination of our screenwriter protagonist's head -- I think it's left open to our interpretation how of much of the dialogue Andrew Scott's character has actively written himself in his screenplay-in-progress and how much is passively occurring in his dreams and dream like state.
by Anonymous | reply 73 | February 26, 2024 6:06 PM
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I absolutely loved it, but I feel like if I wasn't looking to find meaning in it, on the surface it ends with Adam facing the unresolved feelings towards the dead just so he could hop back into bed with the dead.
by Anonymous | reply 74 | February 26, 2024 9:12 PM
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At least this wonderful film has gotten SOME awards love.
[quote]the winners of this year’s Dorian Film Awards, presented by GALECA, the LGBTQ critics association
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 75 | February 26, 2024 9:16 PM
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Having watched summary clips on youtube I have no desire to see it. Too dark and weird.
by Anonymous | reply 76 | February 26, 2024 9:32 PM
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Having read the CliffsNotes on Romeo and Juliet, I have no desire to see it, too dark and weird.
by Anonymous | reply 77 | February 26, 2024 9:46 PM
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Interesting R73. I like that interpretation.
by Anonymous | reply 78 | February 26, 2024 10:11 PM
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Just watched it and it took me nearly one hour to figure out that harry and Adam are of different ages. Do all men from the UK look about the same age?
by Anonymous | reply 79 | February 27, 2024 12:19 AM
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Back in January I asked my local art house to get this and they said they'd try, but it didn't happen.
So I watched it Thursday (started on Hulu, switched to torrents) and now my local art theater just emailed me that they're getting it this week.
Should I go and see it again on the big screen? I feel kind of responsible since I requested it lol.
by Anonymous | reply 80 | February 27, 2024 12:27 AM
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Thanks, OP!
What are some other videos we can watch on streamable? There doesn't seem to be a search function.
by Anonymous | reply 82 | February 27, 2024 12:57 AM
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I wish I liked this more, just watched it last night on Hulu.
Loved all the scenes with Foy and Bell but found the rest of the pacing glacial. I don't blame any of the actors, they were all excellent.
But I did not get the ending. Had to read an article that explained it to me. Maybe I became too bored and wasn't paying proper attention.
by Anonymous | reply 83 | February 27, 2024 12:59 AM
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They all went to heaven in a little row boat, clap snap.
by Anonymous | reply 84 | February 27, 2024 1:07 AM
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R80 Yes, by all means. Support your cinema when they bring good quality films.
by Anonymous | reply 85 | February 27, 2024 1:32 AM
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Lovely BTS package here. Enjoyed hearing more about the process of making the film...
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 86 | February 27, 2024 4:12 PM
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R80 treat yourself and go! Have wine
by Anonymous | reply 87 | February 27, 2024 6:47 PM
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I think I will go, and take a gay neighbor acquaintance, mostly stay at home type, but I think I'll explain the movie before we go so he can enjoy it without being too perplexed.
by Anonymous | reply 89 | February 27, 2024 8:07 PM
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R89 if you're feeling naughty you can always give him a cheeky grope in the dark
by Anonymous | reply 91 | February 28, 2024 4:35 PM
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Finally finished it, over a week
I VERY much enjoyed it. Very touching and thought provoking. As a child my mom died in a car accident so there were a lot of personal references in this, but in general the message was broader than that
by Anonymous | reply 92 | March 3, 2024 12:57 AM
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I am surprised this movie didn't elicit more reactions here on DL. As was said above, many things in it are catnip to DL's gen x cohort.
It was an interesting watch: Haigh is a talented director, for sure, and I suspect his best work is ahead of him. Mescal is appealing, though I don't think he's going to age that well... the crease in the middle of his forehead deepens with the years. He's destined to become a character actor I think.
I have problems with the magical realism of some movies... it seems to me, why should I care about the events in a story if they are all proven to just be imaginary? I'd prefer my deep psychological meaning and learning about human to be from a story that offers itself to me as a story, not a fable.
R73 I think the connection between the writer writing the story of his childhood, its loss, his isolation and the actually movie we were watching (are we watching the movie he wrote?) would have been more interesting.
Last, I noted the scene where the two men had anal sex for the first time (although it was in someone's imagination, apparently, not real) that it matched what's been seen in several movies in recent years: the "bottom" actor performs the pain/pleasure/intensity of penetration. Andrew Scott played it well, though, to me, he has no erotic appeal.
by Anonymous | reply 93 | April 7, 2024 3:40 PM
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He didn't seem guilt ridden and he lied to his Mom when she said she couldn't see.
by Anonymous | reply 94 | April 7, 2024 3:48 PM
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The more interesting spin was that perhaps Adam was dead too. There are things against that, but at least he could have died at the end.
by Anonymous | reply 95 | April 7, 2024 3:50 PM
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I fell asleep. It didn't grab me. It struck me as the kind of movie so quiet it needed a score to draw you in. Kind of like a less weirded out Bergman film as I recall them (Ingmar, not Ingrid.) I will definitely watch it again because I really wanted to like it, but it didn't hold me. I rarely fall asleep watching something. Maybe I was just bagged.
by Anonymous | reply 96 | April 7, 2024 3:59 PM
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[quote]The more interesting spin was that perhaps Adam was dead too. There are things against that, but at least he could have died at the end.
In the original novel and film based on that novel, he was getting weaker due to the ghosts sapping energy. They only touched on this once or twice in ALL OF US STRANGERS where his mother, and maybe even Harry comments on how Adam is feverish or looks poorly.
by Anonymous | reply 98 | April 7, 2024 11:05 PM
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R97, rivalled only by yours.
by Anonymous | reply 99 | April 7, 2024 11:38 PM
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As much as I enjoyed it, I found the age gap a bit distracting. Weren't there any older ghosts out there for Andrew Scott to fall in love with? They could have been father and son.
by Anonymous | reply 100 | April 8, 2024 1:36 AM
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[quote]They could have been father and son.
uh, that was the point.
and honestly, they looked like the same age to me
by Anonymous | reply 102 | April 8, 2024 2:41 AM
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