Author: TheAleosha

A parody on noir movies. Though I feel like I’m not educated enough to appreciate it. Or maybe I simply didn’t watch enough Hitchock?

There’s a dog killer everybody talks about. And a millionaire went missing. And a dude, that is a total dickhead, meets a girl, Sarah, that disappears the next day.

So he goes looking for her. In woman’s restroom, at one point.

He’s a total dickhead, as I said. I found the protagonist to be repelling (I guess this is on purpose, everybody mentions how he smells like a skunk).

The millionaire turns dead, burned in his car with a woman, and the dickhead suspects it’s the same girl he met. He starts obsessing over secret messages, that eventually lead him to an empty atomic bomb shelter and to a cult leader. Turns out the millionaire is not dead, not yet. You see, millionaires use those atomic bomb shelters as tombs. They bury themselves alive in those with their wives to eventually “ascend”. And Sarah is happy with her fate. Is that a commentary on how young girls in LA “sell” themselves to millionaires? Not sure.

Decided to watch this due to some interesting actors: Ruby Rose (John Wick 2), Tom Hopper (Umbrella Academy), Andy Serkis
The storyline is “back to 90’s”, and very similar to Die Hard or Under Siege: bunch of mercenaries capture a train that runs between London and Paris, that just happens to have a well trained SAS operative heading to his honeymoon onboard.
Female (sorry, genderfluid) villain is surprising nowadays, when the only evil comes from white men. Can a good guy kill a woman, even if she’s a terrorist?
The only interesting idea is that even the good guys in movies are sociopaths. Otherwise, you can’t kill 20 people in a day and just walk away as if nothing happened.

Absolutely fascinating. Watched in one go. Although certainly not what I expected. I expected more scares.
There is no one evil mastermind. Instead there is a web of lies that also evolves over time.
It’s easy to look at everything with a modern cynical eye. But it’s important to remember those people honestly believed in things like Hell and Purgatory.
There’s a lot of subtelty in the dialogs, without them being vague. Like: “He went to school, and I didn’t”. In 1860, 40% of women in the UK were illeterate.
Poor box is an interesting detail. The local church may be monetarily benefiting from a local Saint or miracle, but not the family. The family gets the house at best.
Another interesting detail: chickens in the main room. Although I guess the family could be considered a lower-middleclass: they have chickens, and a maid!