Rough Diamonds (2023– )
7/10
Love the story, excellent actors, but the cinematography...
28 April 2023
Am I the only one who is, by the beginning of episode four most certainly, completely annoyed with all of this half-headed cinematography?? I mean, I get that the director is trying to add deaths in dimension, while also trying ro be artsy and avant-garde, but in small doses... Please?! It's one thing to pee in the way and not show the actors in the beginning of the conversation while you slowly pan in. But to see entire scenes acted out from the nose above is getting really annoying. Anybody feel me on this one?

What's really odd, though, is that I didn't even really notice it in the first episode or even most of the second. In the third episode is where it got to be nearly constant, and completely turned me off. I'm still watching, if, for you other reason, then I am hoping he curves his enthusiasm of this style of filming and things get back to better. But seriously, I hope something changes because I like the story, and I am interested to find out how it all plays out. That said, I'm almost kind of hoping that there is some sort of systemic digital glitch on Netflix, whereby the director didn't choose to expose each of the actors heads, only from the new, it's up! Why? Why? I struggle with wanting to be the ideal viewer, who engages the work with (Wholly? Just a little?) the willing suspension of disbelief. But alas, i cannot seem to loose myself without the lower half of these amazing actors' heads!!!'
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