Reply #116: Exactly [View All]

...the movie was so transparent and manipulative that I felt the opposite of what it wanted me to feel. It was so obvious that they WANTED me to believe that the hispanic locksmith was up to no good, just to redeem him in the end and make me have some big racial epiphany. But that was all so painfully obvious that I was left feeling angry that the movie makers would make assumptions about my predjudices or non-predjudices.


This is why it was a bad movie - it had all of these things that it WANTED you to believe only to pull the rug out from underneath these beliefs in the end. A good movie, a good book, a good piece of any art effects the viewer through nuance, through subtlety. It doesn't force ideas on you or make assumptions about what the viewer is thinking. A good movie offers the viewer a personal journey widely open to interpretation - this movie did not, and for that reason it was not a good film.