Directed by: Stephen Daldry
Starring: James McAvoy, Sharon Horgan
Before you sit down and decide to watch this movie, first ask yourself: are you ready to watch 2 people locked in the living room and kitchen talking to each other and sometimes straight into the camera for a period of about an hour and a half? Do you have the nerves for this and is your level of sustaining constant irritation for prolonged periods of time at a high enough level to accept this bla-bla show?
Why did they make this movie?? Really. Somebody should ask the whole crew, the director, the BBC, and everybody involved- WHY? If you can ‘t make anything normal and smart, better to do nothing. And, this is a message to all: stop even trying to make any other Coronavirus movies. Please. Don’t. Life in lockdown and in times of pandemic is miserable enough so don’t make it worse. Quit the idea, if you have one of this type.
This movie is trying to criticize the handling of Coronavirus in the UK, counting the number of deaths, how long term care facilities are in grave condition, how the lockdown in the UK came too late and other-human like, but in fact, just politically motivated and by politically used hot button topics. Most of the movie is one big political pamphlet based on one of the biggest global health crises ever. It’s tasteless from so many aspects. For God sake: two people are speaking at their parents’ funerals for a full ten minutes and in the end she declares that she liked the COVID 19 victim’s funeral better than regular times’ funerals. Whatta perv! Even if we count this as a kind of satire it is still very, very unsuccessful.
The only good part of the movie is the end. Not just because the hour and a half torture is over but also because: love is going to win in the end. Lockdown stress is straining the stability of the relationship between two partners. But, the crisis is over. She admits to him that she “kind of” loves him. He says that it’s enough love for him. Kiss. The end. Good stuff!
This is an attempt at a tragic-comic parody. But, it’s done in such a creepy way so it is neither tragic (even though it’s talking about thousands of deaths from Coronavirus in the UK), nor comic (there is no time for laughter when people are dying).
If you are able to watch this movie to the end, good for you- you are not quitter even when you feel so strong that: “it’s time to cut the crap”. If you can’t watch this to the end-you aren’t missing anything and you can save yourself from a lot of “unnecessary irritation”.
Save your soul- skip it.
