i was excited to see the movie, i love suspense/thriller movies, horror movies - some, but this, once it started, i just wasn't feeling it. i love sydney sweeney (BIG Euphoria fan, which btw where IS euphoria? is it EVER coming back? been like 3 yrs!) ...anyway, love sydney, the girl can act her booty off, so gorgeous as well, naturally, lucky girl. prob. wasn't a complete sentence, but c'est la vie. so yeah, i started the film & i couldn't get into it. it didn't make sense to me WHY an american novice (nun to be) would got to ITALY, not speaking any italian, (just studying it on the plane to italy, really?) to become a nun? it doesn't make any sense at all! she has no family, friends there, but then as a nun, u give up all of that anyway. but NOT SPEAKING THE LANGUAGE!? minor detail, eh? there was some hackneyed explanation about how some monsignor, cardinal, whatever he was, having met her someone in the states or something? & asking her to come to HIS convent. is he a perv? is he evil? who knows. who cares really? i noticed the 5.1 or whatever imdb rating pre-purchase & SO wish i had paid closer attention to that. i don't go by critics & ratings all the time at all though, many times i don't agree w/them & besides who ARE these "critics" & raters? the rotten tomatoes people have it SO wrong & so off much of the time. who are they? who makes up the group? i know it's public, but also rotten tomato employees, so called experts. ha! not. there r EXCELLENT 4 star films they give 80% or even 60% to & horrid films they give high ratings, percentages to, they are all over the place in their wrongness. i agreed w/and trusted roger ebert when he was alive! HE was a great film critic! he's been gone quite a long time. i used to read his reviews when i was a little kid, though i wasn't in chicago & there was no internet. maybe i'm thinking of the show they had on tv when i was a little girl? siskel & ebert, they were usually arguing. it was on from '82-'99. wow, i don't think i knew it was on that long. wow! i digressed, sorry. i DID read his reviews though, i clearly recall that.
so yeah, the start of the film, which featured the 1 italian girl from the last season of "the white lotus", the 1 who was sleeping w/the shy guy for $$ & scamming him. SHE is also beautiful & sooo talented, but her role was VERY quick, then she was gone, poof! not gonna give out spoilers. then it's onto sydney, another interesting actress that i'm not familiar with, (british maybe?) & some old, mostly creepy nuns that group around doing evil deeds, like witches in Macbeth, or devil worshippers. the later i'm sure, though aren't witches generally evil & devilish as well?
after a certain point of all of that, 1 cool scene ala Hitchcock of the lengthening hallway behind the priest she's confessing to, but as usual, ALL of the good scenes have already been WASTED & RUINED by being shown in the trailers & commercials, ad naseum. so, the only good things that they have in the film, they already blew their wad, trying to lure in an audience with. sometime after that, i turned it off & put on a good film or show.
so, not a fan, maybe it got better? could be. i may catch up w/it on cable, or netflix or wherever it shows up later on. all these Euphoria actors are off doing so many other projects, it's no wonder it's taking forever to return. it IS supposed to return, maybe it's in post-production? hopefully. i haven't looked. i do know that it's coming back though & poor Fez died! drug related, so sad & bad. poor guy. he was talented & i wanted to see where his character arc went, we had just recently gotten HIS story via an episode. i love how they do that. give each person's story per an episode. sam levinson is so talented as well! a bit of a perv too, if Euphoria & "the Idol" see: Johnny Depp's mostly always naked daughter, w/her nipple ledge tops & crotch-less everything. i think good old Sam is having a midlife crisis or something? drooling over & fantasizing over teenage & early 20's girls/women? not being judgmental, no, just an observation, it's really hard to miss. have we seen ANY penises on that show? oh wait, we have right, okay, but just a bit, nowhere NEAR the copiousness of female nudity we see. equality dude, not just what U want to see! sometimes imgination can be better too! sometimes it seems as is everyone is in a competition to out-whore each other, meaning who can go the furthest? who can show the most, who can shock the most. who can be the MOST violent? who can be the MOST sexual, who can be the most pornographic? etc. etc. etc. does it not feel like that? i know realism is good, i love realism, truth, honesty in art. don't agree w/censorship, so on. BUT i also believe in having class, morals, diplomacy, ethics, as blunt as i am & can be, i can curse like a sailor, but i don't believe in cruelty & abuse, obscenity for obscenities sake, exploitation, so on. okay, i'm going out far & away from what i was initially talking about.
the end :)
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