Maybe a different format, like a mini-series, would have been a better choice, allowing to expand more on a few aspects and give certain things more room to resonate with the audience, idk. Obviously, writers and directors have the power to maximize the potential of the material accordingly and there is always room for improvement but I wouldn't know what to suggest to make the movie better tbh. Regarding "superficial": I think that's the result of compressing the material into roughly two hours. This certainly isn't new or mind-blowing, but it offers a different perspective that I felt was worth exploring in this particular context. Nocturnal Animals was one of the few movies that gave me a lot of food for thought, mainly because it portrayed the ordinary so well and so realistically - not necessarily regarding the chain of events, but the character's experiences and slow de(con)struction - and human nature in general. We just don't really bother to think about these things a lot because it seems normal/natural to (re)act the way the characters do but once you dive deeper into the motivation and underlying psychology behind each process of decision making (or decisions made for others), the complexity is quite interesting and well portrayed imho. What I liked about Nocturnal Animals is that it portrayed exactly that (imho): how life can change entirely because of a few simple decisions that seem rather harmless at first - or that make sense within the context of our limited scope at this point in time - but then evolve into something we can't control because our actions just become desperate attempts to regain control, trying to react to the circumstances that now dominate us.īoth the novel, as well as the "reality" visualize that lack of control and the attempts to please our surroundings while trading our freedom of choice in the hopes of a more beneficial transaction. We are never isolated (even if we might feel that way) - the moment we start to exist, everything influences us and we influence everything - even after death. Even being passive has an effect on the world, one way or another. Everything is just about actio and reactio what we encounter along the way always impacts us, sometimes more, sometimes less. Life itself, as we experience it, is so complex due to the multitude of options and uncertainties (which we can anticipate but almost never predict). We have very little control, mostly limited to our immediate surroundings and it can be easily disturbed by things other people do/say or by developments we didn't expect because we went down another path today, left instead of right, etc. Perhaps the same thing can be said about whites as well. In first generation immigrant/migrant cultures, there is a lot of pressure from parents in certain ethnic cultures (Indian, Chinese, Arab) to not allow their offspring to marry outside the culture. You see a large ethic groups living together in very large modern metropolitan cities but some of these ethnic groups keep and maintain their invisible borders to their own culture and don't allow the new younger forwardly mobile generation to break away from their roots. The film actually made me think about mix race marriages in large urban metropolitan cities. It could also be interpreted as class division based on race and ethnicity. That could be interpreted as class division based on income and status. I thought the deeper layer to the film was that people don't so easily break out of their class and roots. The Adams character attempted a weak rebellion at her roots but failed because she just wasn't strong enough and ultimately turn into a rich high class bitch - just like her mother. The mother character represents roots and the borders between social classes. I sort of saw more to the story because of the inclusion of the mother character.
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