Finally finish watching

CONTAINS SPOILERS!!

The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5715874/



Remember this scene from Pulp Fiction?



Almost every dialogue scene in this movie is like that.

WIKI explains it best:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awkward_silence
The unpleasant nature of such silences is associated with feelings of anxiety as the participants feel pressure to speak but are unsure of what to say next
If the dialogue scene is not uncomfortable silence, then it's ludicrous dialogue like when one main character is in a pivotal scene with another main character and instead of saying something that's related to the dire situation at hand, he talks about....

a crucial time in his childhood.

WHICH HAD NOTHING to to do with that scene right there, right then!

WHO wrote this STUPIDITY?

The whole story and premise could had been interesting but the way the characters and the story and the structure of it was written and then executed on film was just asinine and ludicrous.

At about 41 minutes into a movie, I said to myself

OH WOW!
Because there was a scene which made me (and I am sure I wasn't the only person who had the same thoughts while watching it) think something worthwhile was finally happening and this is going to get good and intriguing and interesting from then on and nope, it never delivered.

A waste of Colin Farrel, Nicole Kidman and a talented young cast.

Also there were 2 other things that annoyed the heck out of me.

1. Almost every other scene between dialogues are like this long camera shot:





2. The constant suspenseful ominous music in the background in almost every scene building up to a crescendo but nothing ever happens or come of it. What was the point of that?

The director of this film is the same one that did the Lobster and those other very weird movies.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0487166

I think I will have to put him on the list of directors who make weird empty movies that if you see his name on the marquee, you will know to immediately pass on, no matter what the trailer looks like!

Stay away from this movie!

I'd rather spend the 2 hour and 1 minute to get a root canal!

A waste of Colin Farrel, Nicole Kidman and a talented young cast.

0/5