I’m not much of a movie person, but I love the film criticism you post. I always learn so much, and I appreciate the wide range of films you write about. I hope you have a great weekend.
I wish Anna Kendrick was given better roles. Not that this is was a bad character. This is one of her better ones of late. I just think she has the charisma to carry a movie (like Pitch Perfect, a movie I don’t think works at all without her) if they just let her let loose.
Huh—you'd have thought that, with Anna Kendrick playing widowed Mom Stephanie, they were at least considering that as a twist. I don't know how Stephanie could've clued into the "Twins!" aspect of the scam, but if you were feeling Hitchcocky enough you could have it that Emily's twin sister was Stephanie's lover and they plotting her befriending Emily as a way to further the insurance scam, ending in Emily's twin's death—only it wasn't the sister who died....
In any event, when it all goes Tango-Uniform, either Stephanie or her twin let Emily know that she can either go to jail—or stick around as Stephanie's (or "Stephanie's") submissive lesbian lover, because Sean? He's in on the scheme too, and is into watching that kind of thing.... 😐
I’m not much of a movie person, but I love the film criticism you post. I always learn so much, and I appreciate the wide range of films you write about. I hope you have a great weekend.
Thanks!
I wish Anna Kendrick was given better roles. Not that this is was a bad character. This is one of her better ones of late. I just think she has the charisma to carry a movie (like Pitch Perfect, a movie I don’t think works at all without her) if they just let her let loose.
TIL a new word! Tergiversation! Did everyone else already know this one?
Thanks Noah!
Hah; I think it's a Wallace Stevens word!
As in his poetry is where you learned of the word? That would make sense.
yes; I'm pretty sure. (this would have been decades ago!)
I love learning new words and it rarely happens these days so I might need to read more poetry, or at least some more of his.
Huh—you'd have thought that, with Anna Kendrick playing widowed Mom Stephanie, they were at least considering that as a twist. I don't know how Stephanie could've clued into the "Twins!" aspect of the scam, but if you were feeling Hitchcocky enough you could have it that Emily's twin sister was Stephanie's lover and they plotting her befriending Emily as a way to further the insurance scam, ending in Emily's twin's death—only it wasn't the sister who died....
...OR WASN'T IT?!?!?
::dramatic chipmunk!::
https://youtu.be/1YgZyLACn6M?si=zaLrAV1Gi96mU98M
In any event, when it all goes Tango-Uniform, either Stephanie or her twin let Emily know that she can either go to jail—or stick around as Stephanie's (or "Stephanie's") submissive lesbian lover, because Sean? He's in on the scheme too, and is into watching that kind of thing.... 😐