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Week of June 29, 2018
I'm not sorry all of the time. First up...
Acrimony
The key to a successful marriage is making
sure your spouse never finds out you’re cheating on them.
Sadly, the trifling husband in this
thriller failed to follow the aforementioned rule.
After a whirlwind romance Melinda (Taraji
P. Henson) and Robert (Lyriq Bent) tie the knot in spite of her sisters’
misgivings towards the groom. Those doubts are later confirmed when Melinda
catches Robert cheating on her and divorces him. But when Robert remarries Melinda has a
breakdown, sending her in to destructive tailspin.
Writer and director Tyler Perry’s latest
offering on the complexities of marriage is his most absurd venture yet.
Reducing its talented lead to a fanatical stereotype is insulting to women,
while the unfaithful husband is the same stock character that appears in all of
Perry’s productions.
Besides, the best revenge a woman can get
after a divorce is moving on with her life with her brother-in-law. Red Light
Unsane
The upside to being committed to a mental
institute is finally finding people who agree with your point of view.
Nevertheless, the patient in this thriller
maintains she is not crazy.
Stressed over a stalker, Sawyer (Claire
Foy) meets with a counselor for advice. But when she admits to suicidal
thoughts, the counselor decides to hold Sawyer at the facility for 24 hours.
Under observation Sawyer meets fellow
patient Nate (Jay Pharoah) who helps her contact her mother (Amy Irving). But
Sawyer’s mental state deteriorates when she learns her stalker works at the
hospital.
The first feature-length film to be shot on
an iPhone, filmmaker Steven Soderbergh explores themes of anxiety and corrupt
insurancers through the lens of the handheld device. Unfortunately, this is the
only innovative aspect of this lackluster mystery.
And while no one likes being called crazy,
it sure helps when you’re accused of first degree murder. Red Light
***Electro-Shop Therapy***
The Snake Pit
Mental institutes are just like federal
prisons except inmates are shanked by imaginary friends.
Mind you the patient in this drama is also
being tormented by a cruel nurse.
After she begins to hear voices and forget
husband (Mark Stevens), Virginia (Olivia de Havilland) is committed to an
all-female mental institute, where a sympathetic doctor (Leo Genn) hopes
retracing her life will help unravel the truth behind her apprehensive towards
marriage and family.
However, a nurse (Helen Craig) envious of
their relationship has Susan sent to the dreaded snake pit, a place where
incurable and problem patients are sent to rot.
While offering up marriage and motherhood
as a cure for schizophrenia is sexist and misinformed, this
semi-autobiographical picture’s depiction of post-WWII mental institutions and
their brutal treatments, like shock treatment, is frightfully realistic and
haunting.
Thankfully, medical science later
determined that the cure to female hysteria was a vibrator.
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