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Jun. 20th, 2007 12:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cwfilmbuff29. Red Road
There was an interesting story here, but it never really gained any momentum. The idea of a person who monitors security cameras coming across someone from her past has promise, especially when she begins to plot revenge on him. But the execution is at times too sloppy - why, for example, are the cameras forgotten when she is stalking this man? I think the filmmakers spent so much time on the backstory, which is slowly and masterfully revealed, that the actual plot of the film feels like more of an afterthought. None of which was quite as annoying as the fact that it was subtitled; apparently it’s assumed that Americans can’t understand English spoken with a Scottish accent (and not a very thick one at that).
There was an interesting story here, but it never really gained any momentum. The idea of a person who monitors security cameras coming across someone from her past has promise, especially when she begins to plot revenge on him. But the execution is at times too sloppy - why, for example, are the cameras forgotten when she is stalking this man? I think the filmmakers spent so much time on the backstory, which is slowly and masterfully revealed, that the actual plot of the film feels like more of an afterthought. None of which was quite as annoying as the fact that it was subtitled; apparently it’s assumed that Americans can’t understand English spoken with a Scottish accent (and not a very thick one at that).
