Post by Vits on Jan 9, 2024 20:23:48 GMT
There are movies where a certain concept or joke is repeated rather than developed, to the point where you can watch just one scene and feel like it's enough. WINNIE-THE-POOH: BLOOD AND HONEY is the rare case where you don't even have to watch the movie. That mixture of surprise and laughter caused by the idea of turning the beloved characters created by A.A. Milne into serial killers is something you can experience just by reading/listening to the premise. I would argue that watching the movie ruins it, because it’s supposed to be about the contrast between how cute the characters were and how evil they are now. That can’t happen if the audience isn’t constantly aware that the villains on the screen are the title character and his friend Piglet. I don’t think I would’ve guessed if I saw a photo of them out of context. They look more like a mouse and a boar. Speaking of, did you think that the characters were two guys in disguise (just like the actors)? Nope. In-universe, those are supposed to be their real heads, with no explanation as to why their faces look frozen most of the time or as to why it never crosses the humans’ minds that these are masks (especially considering that their hands look normal). By the standards of a production with such a low budget, the cinematography is quite decent, at least in certain scenes. Unfortunately, those shots and those camera movements can’t overcome the generic plot, the boring characters, the laughable dialogue and the abrupt ending. It all amounts to lame torture porn. Without getting into spoilers, there’s a scene where a woman tells her friends a story in which she woke up in the middle of the night and she saw a man who had broken into her house just as he was trying to undress her. The music score suggests that the viewer should feel creeped out, but the pacing and the way it’s filmed feels fetishistic. Am I looking too much into it? You can’t blame me, since it’s not the only instance where something… Hmmm… Questionable happens. You see, there’s another scene where Pooh grabs a woman, he rips her shirt off and he immediately kills her. What was the point of the nudity (she wasn't wearing a bra) in this context if he wasn't going to try to rape her?
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