During the Civil War, at a Southern girls’ boarding school, young women take in an injured enemy soldier. As they provide refuge and tend to his wounds, the house is taken over with sexual tension and dangerous rivalries, and taboos are broken in an unexpected turn of events.
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Don't waste your time. Nothing interesting about this film at all
Although this film has many merits on its own standing, when compared to Don Siegel's 1971 release, this production lacks the guts that the original had. The Eastwood version portrayed the manipulation by McB as a deep, tricky web. Whereas this film struggled to show his true intentions. The film itself, when not compared, definitely stands on its own two legs. The reduced aspect ratio along with the production design and costume makes the civil war era come to life. The acting is as good as it gets. However, it is what is SHOWN in the film that is its downfall. The original had hypnotic and artistic moments bookending the film. It had a gut-wrenching amputation scene that this version skips over entirely. The sexual manipulation between the three main female leads by Colin Farrell's character is not as evenly spread as the original making the ending less entirely less dramatic. They have extracted much of the complexity of all the characters, such as Nicole Kidman's character's previous relationship is gone completely. As another review read, this film is not a horror and I feel as though Sofia Coppola would have done better if she had stuck closer to that line.
Greetings from Lithuania."The Beguiled" (2017) is a good movie. It was very solidly directed, nicely written drama that kinda surprised me in a second half of the movie. I haven't saw the original, nor read the book, nor i intend to it. I liked this movie.Overall, craftsmanship of this movie was good. Acting was pretty good, although nothing that special. Set design was solid and like i said i liked the kinda unexpected turn the story made. This is a slow movie which won't please anyone that is for sure, but its a good movie - that i'm sure either.
I can't waste my time on this dribble, but all I will say was the ridiculous way the film ended, instead of using a prior foreshadow in the film, which was quite sufficient, Coppola decides to hammer the point into the viewers head, which is when I threw up. Please do not waste your time.
