Either the majority of reviewers here who raved about this film are crazy or I am for not seeing any reason to praise it in the slightest. There was little to no warmth or realistic human actions/reactions in the thing - just suddenly another left curveball scene out of the blue that had no connection to the previous scene or dialogue.
*MAJOR SPOILER* The only humanness I noticed was when Kay desperately tried to give Dawn mouth-to-mouth rescusitation after showing nothing but disgust, exasperation, and frustration with her ever since Dawn descended on her with no warning and a broken window in the front door.
In fact, there was very little dialogue in it, compared to most movies. The basic premise of the little sickly tree and various tree roots woven throughout, culminating with the root preventing the lowering of the coffin at the end, was vague and sketchy, especially in relation to the demented sister Dawn/'Sweetie'. And why on earth would they leave her alone while they went off somewhere far away, knowing how mentally ill and unpredictable she was? It would be the same as leaving a 5 year old child home alone for days on end. Why were they so dead-set against taking her with them? And of course they came home to a horrible mess in every room of the house since she had full rein to take out her revenge on them that way. How contrived and ludicrously unbelievable.
Not sure what the point of it all was, other than a depressing, boring look at a dysfunctional family with the side character of Louis, who - by the way - just took off walking down the road in a fit of anger, without any luggage or belongings, never to be seen again, which begs the question: whose hairy legs were those near Kay's legs toward the end? Did Louis come back or was it someone else? Was it even Kay's legs or another woman's? Just one of the many frustrating things about this movie that made me glad and relieved to delete it from my DVR after the insanely long, slow credits.....(with African gospel music....?)
And were the unnecessary nude scenes really worth it? Was the entire movie worth making at all? My answer is NO to both.
And now I'm glad to be done with this review and forget I ever saw it.
2 out of 10 / Grade D-
*MAJOR SPOILER* The only humanness I noticed was when Kay desperately tried to give Dawn mouth-to-mouth rescusitation after showing nothing but disgust, exasperation, and frustration with her ever since Dawn descended on her with no warning and a broken window in the front door.
In fact, there was very little dialogue in it, compared to most movies. The basic premise of the little sickly tree and various tree roots woven throughout, culminating with the root preventing the lowering of the coffin at the end, was vague and sketchy, especially in relation to the demented sister Dawn/'Sweetie'. And why on earth would they leave her alone while they went off somewhere far away, knowing how mentally ill and unpredictable she was? It would be the same as leaving a 5 year old child home alone for days on end. Why were they so dead-set against taking her with them? And of course they came home to a horrible mess in every room of the house since she had full rein to take out her revenge on them that way. How contrived and ludicrously unbelievable.
Not sure what the point of it all was, other than a depressing, boring look at a dysfunctional family with the side character of Louis, who - by the way - just took off walking down the road in a fit of anger, without any luggage or belongings, never to be seen again, which begs the question: whose hairy legs were those near Kay's legs toward the end? Did Louis come back or was it someone else? Was it even Kay's legs or another woman's? Just one of the many frustrating things about this movie that made me glad and relieved to delete it from my DVR after the insanely long, slow credits.....(with African gospel music....?)
And were the unnecessary nude scenes really worth it? Was the entire movie worth making at all? My answer is NO to both.
And now I'm glad to be done with this review and forget I ever saw it.
2 out of 10 / Grade D-