I have to say that every actress and actor played their roles very well. Every character shows their layers, showing their anger or frustration or fear or everything in whichever scene they're in.
But for the movie itself, it's slow to get going. Every time it seems like there's a development, it stumbles and stutters. The flashbacks go back and forth but don't really add much - for all I care it could have been shown chronologically and it still would have been the same. Also, since everything has the same drab look in the same general setting, it's hard to tell sometimes when the flashback's over. Not that it really matters whether it happened a month ago, 3 months ago, last week... there really isn't much reason to care.
And it's a murder mystery but there's so little direction. The lead is an alcoholic who's basically pointing fingers at everyone. The police don't believe her and I, as a viewer, don't see any reason to follow her accusations or train of thought either. There is a whole lot of drunk, directionless finger-pointing for most of the film. The plot, like the lead character, was stumbling and going nowhere, and I just kept waiting for it to actually do something.
Obviously the goal of a murder mystery is to solve the murder, but there's no real investigation in the plot. Like a drunk, it stumbles left, goes nowhere. It stumbles right, goes nowhere again. It falls over and we patiently wait for it to attempt to get up, and wonder if it'll ever get to the end of the street.
And then at the very end the lead/plot remembers her blackout drunk session, and everything makes sense, and you wonder what the point of the previous hour and a half of stumbling around was.
Great performances holding up nothing much
I have to say that every actress and actor played their roles very well. Every character shows their layers, showing their anger or frustration or fear or everything in whichever scene they're in.
But for the movie itself, it's slow to get going. Every time it seems like there's a development, it stumbles and stutters. The flashbacks go back and forth but don't really add much - for all I care it could have been shown chronologically and it still would have been the same. Also, since everything has the same drab look in the same general setting, it's hard to tell sometimes when the flashback's over. Not that it really matters whether it happened a month ago, 3 months ago, last week... there really isn't much reason to care.
And it's a murder mystery but there's so little direction. The lead is an alcoholic who's basically pointing fingers at everyone. The police don't believe her and I, as a viewer, don't see any reason to follow her accusations or train of thought either. There is a whole lot of drunk, directionless finger-pointing for most of the film. The plot, like the lead character, was stumbling and going nowhere, and I just kept waiting for it to actually do something.
Obviously the goal of a murder mystery is to solve the murder, but there's no real investigation in the plot. Like a drunk, it stumbles left, goes nowhere. It stumbles right, goes nowhere again. It falls over and we patiently wait for it to attempt to get up, and wonder if it'll ever get to the end of the street.
And then at the very end the lead/plot remembers her blackout drunk session, and everything makes sense, and you wonder what the point of the previous hour and a half of stumbling around was.