Rosy

I honestly really didn't like rosy from the beginning of the movie. As soon as she inserted herself into a married man's life, I just couldn't look at her in any kind of positive way. She had some funny moments that made her a little less bad, but then it'd cut back to her with James and she'd just do some other irritating and unbearable thing. I get the movie probably wants to emphasize the whole age difference thing by making her seem immature and stuff, but instead it just makes me kinda pity James for having to deal with her, which I'm almost entirely sure was not the director's intention. Obviously we're supposed to feel bad for the girl in the situation cause she's with an older married man, blah blah blah, but it's so hard to actually care when she blatantly and intentionally put herself in that situation.

Where can I begin. First off. The director did a lot with the little bit that she had at hand. She took relatively new actors like Johnny Knoxville and made them look like pros. Of course she could not have done it without their cooperation and effort so kudos to all involved. Second. The story is unique and believable at the same time. I do think the writing flowed well for the first 75% of the movie. I don't know if it was just my perception of it or if others would have the same experience, but it seemed like the writing took a turn down an ambiguous path and had me scratching my head. I felt like the flashbacks could have made more relative sense sooner in the movie. All in all this is a movie worth watching if you enjoy a unique story with good acting and direction. Make what you like of it and its ending. Whether you agree with the ending or not it was still a good story that you can get distracted from your everyday life by.

I hate to be one of those "the book was better" people. But I started watching this on Hulu not knowing what it was. But two minutes into in I pulled the book "the collector" by John Fowles off my book shelf and told my partner of 15 years this movie is that book. I couldn't get over that they slightly altered the plot (girls story line) and the ending.. in the book she doesn't get the doctor when she needs it. But every other little things Is the same. Which wouldn't bother me if the movie was called "the collector" or if they gave John towels credit in the titles. But they don't. And it's disturbing to close for them not to give credit. Especially when the book was better.

A part two is needed because the audience wants answers. Talk about a cliffhanger.

This story has all the right elements to be a new age cult classic, but some of the execution was so poor that it can't break past it. All in all the movie felt unfocused and the ending left something to be desired. Ideally the film would've needed another 30min added to its run time to give the movie enough time to fulfill the storyline and give the audience a better resolution. Although I understand the direction the movie was going for, it really didn't work with this movie in the slightest. Nat Wolff fit the "slightly off putting" character to a T, but as for his co star not so much. It's really unclear for most of the movie whether this is a case of Stockholm syndrome or if she is faking it. The line is very blurred and perhaps that was the goal, but it resulted in a very disorienting film.