born_naughty

I couldn't even get to the ending with this one. At least the first half of this movie is a series of flashbacks. One after the other, after the other, after the other. It makes the whole thing disjointed and without emotional depth. It's hard to care about characters and story when every scene is so short and we keep going to the past in non chronological order. Flashbacks can be a good storytelling tool off course but not like this imo. To be honest, even with better structure I wouldn't have rated this very high as some of the situations and characters can be carituresque.

I do get that the main appeal of the story is 'did she do it or not?' but I honestly didn't care. Part of it is that the story just doesn't flow. Another part of it is that none of the characters are very likeable nor relatable (though that's very subjective to me off course). Cathy Bates is a very good acress but even she can't save this for me. Direction is more important than acting.

In what is supposed to be an emotional peak in a series that constantly hammers the viewers that is very much "real" they have two actors singing... So why in the actual FU would they add fake singing voices to these so called real characters? It completely diminishes any real emotions that could be there. In what is supposed to be an emotional peak in a series that constantly hammers the viewers that is very much "real" they have two actors singing... So why in the actual FU would they add fake singing voices to these so called real characters? It completely diminishes any real emotions that could be there.

By today's standards this is not a very good movie. The two big culprits are the not very subtle, on the nose, script and the overacting. Both of which are kinda on par with what Hollywood was making at the time. Because of this I just couldn't relate to any of the characters. Maybe it also needed more time as there was a mini series in 2011 with Kate Winslet and Guy Pierce in the leading roles. The mini series was obviously longer and so the story and characters had more time to sink in. But overall it was such a good production all around that it made this movie from 1945 completely obsolete in my honest opinion.