The Beguiled (2017)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5592248/



The PC and feminist remake by woman director Sofia Coppola (she herself has admitted she deliberately used this movie to be a feminist vehicle) which left out all the subplots that made the 1971 original such a narrative shocker, because after 46 years, we as a society have regressed instead of progressed,

Such subplots would be offensive toward everyone:

the 12 year old girl being sexually attracted to Clint Estwood's Union soldier character, the implied rape scene, the sex scene where the girls were underage, discussions of incest, lesbianism among the teenage girls, etc., etc.

It's 2017, we can't have that. We are now more prude publicly than the puritans and the pilgrims.

By removing all that, Sofia Coppola has made the characters uninteresting and lifeless and 2-dimensional and the story has become boring and devoid of any tension and anticipation and longing and dread!

Quite a few talented actresses in the cast including Kidman, Dunst, Fanning, all gone to waste in this farce!!

1/5