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Topic	All Purpose Horror Topic 2021: Living Through Our Own Horror Stories
v_charon 08/28/21 11:54:02 PM #133:	PrivateBiscuit1 posted... Man I cannot agree with that review at all. i didn't think the narration was that heavy handed at all, and I thought the execution was nearly perfect. It kept me on the edge of my seat the whole time and I had no idea where any of this was going, and I loved how it left what it did open ended enough. Just the absolute perfect story about grief and contending with thoughts of suicide. Just tremendous even to the closing line. The closing line was good, and the boat scene itself was as well. The writing here would have been a perfect fit for a film that was more ambiguous during it's final act. But the bit with the Night House being out in the woods, the fact so many other characters verified her suspicions and even contributed their own, unique ideas is what did it for me. It wasn't subtle enough to achieve the effect I feel it was intended to go for; that none of what she was experiencing was real and that she created this narrative as a coping mechanism for her grief and perhaps as an excuse for her own death. The problem was that so many elements were introduced and I had a hard time simply believing what was shown on screen wasn't just what actually was happening. You had the neighbor giving her an account of her husband cheating on her, you had the mistress in town not being all that she initially expected. If we're to believe the encounter was only in her head or some byproduct of grief, then one would expect that when she confronted this mistress that she wouldn't have learned the things she did and that instead, we'd get to see what she believed the truth about their relationship to be, because she went there believing it and even flatly said the line "you slept with my husband and I'm asking you nicely", when that character continued to deny it happened even until the end. To me, it falls into the category of many other TV shows/movies/games where the narration simply tries telling you "all this stuff you just saw, it wasn't real!". Obviously not in an extremely negative way like many other forms of this style of storytelling, but I still got a little taste of that vibe. I also just really didn't like the personification of Death and intended to be real or not, how an omnipotent being like Death could be fooled for any amount of time into thinking all white brunette women are the same. --- :> Truly smilin' <cite>v_charon posted [p:957536973] in All Purpos... [t:79209398]...</cite> <quote>PrivateBiscuit1 posted...</cite> <quote>Man I cannot agree with that review at all. i didn't think the narration was that heavy handed at all, and I thought the execution was nearly perfect. It kept me on the edge of my seat the whole time and I had no idea where any of this was going, and I loved how it left what it did open ended enough. Just the absolute perfect story about grief and contending with thoughts of suicide. Just tremendous even to the closing line. </quote> The closing line was good, and the boat scene itself was as well. The writing here would have been a perfect fit for a film that was more ambiguous during it's final act. But the bit with the Night House being out in the woods, the fact so many other characters verified her suspicions and even contributed their own, unique ideas is what did it for me. It wasn't subtle enough to achieve the effect I feel it was intended to go for; that none of what she was experiencing was real and that she created this narrative as a coping mechanism for her grief and perhaps as an excuse for her own death. The problem was that so many elements were introduced and I had a hard time simply believing what was shown on screen wasn't just what actually was happening. You had the neighbor giving her an account of her husband cheating on her, you had the mistress in town not being all that she initially expected. If we're to believe the encounter was only in her head or some byproduct of grief, then one would expect that when she confronted this mistress that she wouldn't have learned the things she did and that instead, we'd get to see what she believed the truth about their relationship to be, because she went there believing it and even flatly said the line "you slept with my husband and I'm asking you nicely", when that character continued to deny it happened even until the end. To me, it falls into the category of many other TV shows/movies/games where the narration simply tries telling you "all this stuff you just saw, it wasn't real!". Obviously not in an extremely negative way like many other forms of this style of storytelling, but I still got a little taste of that vibe. I also just really didn't like the personification of Death and intended to be real or not, how an omnipotent being like Death could be fooled for any amount of time into thinking all white brunette women are the same. --- :> Truly smilin'</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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