St 02 září 2020

(my comments on the review of “Their Finest” by Susan Wloszczyna)

I really wanted to like this film, it started nicely, and generally I like it, but then there are points which just don’t make sense at all. It is even worse when whole film is about scriptwriting.

• Catrin periodically coming to her home just asked for the last visit make her finding her man, Ellis, dead under the rubble. If the authors wanted to make him unfaithful, I could imagine that dialogue with air-warden much better. Super embarrassed warden explains to Catrin that they found Ellis naked with a woman in bed (having sex is as good reason as any not to go to the bomb shelter), “we thought it was you, but apparently … it wasn’t.” The film can follow without any change … angry Catrin leaves and throws away her ring to the dustbin.
• Czech writer Karel Čapek once wrote an essay, how he was always feeling uncertain whether a death in a story is rising from the internal necessity of the plot, or whether the author just didn’t know what to do with a character. I am really afraid that the Tom’s death is from the second category, mortem ex machina. The author wanted tear-jerking finale, so he just got rid of the main lover. And of course, if Tom should be eliminated, then a thousand-ponder would work much better, than random stage piece.

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