Very minor spoilers and this is based on the life of an actual person, so you might already be aware of those plot elements.
In a way I hate to do this, because it feels sort of like attacking the subject of the movie, but that is in no way my intention. Someone with such a story deserves something better than this.
The moment I knew I hated this movie came quite early. There's a scene where our protagonist goes riding with a friend of hers. For some reason, in this drama movie, this is encompanied by music that feels like it's from a thriller. This was bothersome, but when that same mistake was done a few scenes later, I knew this is going to be very bad. There's a scene where the main character sends her children into the night to go to their grandmother's in anticipation of her partner beating her up. Yes, I'm not kidding. This is supposed to be a heart-wrenching scene, but we get this suspenseful music. This is one of those situation where I would gladly use words I'm not allowed on this platform.
The structure is also all wrong. The first act is too long, the second act is too short, and the third act shouldn't even exist. The natural ending point for the movie is situated in the end of the second act, where all the important plot elements are solved. Also, there's are subplots which the moviemakers clearly didn't know how to handle, so they are just set up and then resolved in a sentence or two later on without anything happening with them in between.
So, what's in the third act if the movie should have ended before that? Dressage. I guess someone thought you could actually make a mainstream movie, where the climax is dressage.
In a way I hate to do this, because it feels sort of like attacking the subject of the movie, but that is in no way my intention. Someone with such a story deserves something better than this.
The moment I knew I hated this movie came quite early. There's a scene where our protagonist goes riding with a friend of hers. For some reason, in this drama movie, this is encompanied by music that feels like it's from a thriller. This was bothersome, but when that same mistake was done a few scenes later, I knew this is going to be very bad. There's a scene where the main character sends her children into the night to go to their grandmother's in anticipation of her partner beating her up. Yes, I'm not kidding. This is supposed to be a heart-wrenching scene, but we get this suspenseful music. This is one of those situation where I would gladly use words I'm not allowed on this platform.
The structure is also all wrong. The first act is too long, the second act is too short, and the third act shouldn't even exist. The natural ending point for the movie is situated in the end of the second act, where all the important plot elements are solved. Also, there's are subplots which the moviemakers clearly didn't know how to handle, so they are just set up and then resolved in a sentence or two later on without anything happening with them in between.
So, what's in the third act if the movie should have ended before that? Dressage. I guess someone thought you could actually make a mainstream movie, where the climax is dressage.
