42/19
Throughout the movie there's background music that is Variations on the Second Movement of Beethoven's 7th Symphony Explained (2024)
Plot
A group of friends gather for a pre-wedding party that descends into an existential nightmare when an estranged friend arrives with a mysterious game that awakens long-hidden secrets, desires and grudges.. Coppelia: Act I: WaltzWritten by Leo DelibesPerformed by the Slovenian Red Symphony Orchestra (as the Slovak Radio Orchestra) and Andrew MogreliaCourtesy of Naxos of AmericaCourtesy of Naxos of AmericaBy arrangement with HD Music Now Inc.
It started out well enough; I even liked the mechanic they used (which I won't spoil here)
As someone else said, it seemed like it was going to get pretty interesting pretty fast.Instead, it got pretty eye-rollingly bad pretty fast we really don't know them. And by not knowing them at all, we're really just not invested in what ends up happening.
But everyone else?
Sure, one of the couples is introduced early, only through a very particular lens. We're given hints, not much more.
And the ride's way less fun than it thinks it is
They're drawn quite flatly and broadly, and as an audience we aren't given enough to care about beyond surface level.I think what the film is trying to do here really requires us to be invested. It's kind of like we've agreed to go on a roller coaster ride with them, but before we can even say hello and exchange pleasantries, we're buckled in and shoved off for the next couple of hours.
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