jkrempelinsac
Joined Jun 2015
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Azrael is one of those films that tries to build mystery and atmosphere by withholding information, but instead of feeling intriguing, it can end up feeling sloppy, directionless, or even
We're thrown into a world with vague rules (like silence attracting monsters), but those rules are broken without explanation-making the stakes feel inconsistent.
The film leans heavily on visual symbolism (the goat-baby, the mute cult, the fire, etc.) without anchoring those symbols in a coherent story. So it looks meaningful, but doesn't say much.
Azrael is more of a symbol than a character with a clear arc. We don't really know what she thinks, wants, or feels-so it's hard to invest in her journey.
The modern truck and speaking driver feel like a twist for the sake of a twist, not something organically built into the story.
In the end, it feels like the filmmakers had a cool aesthetic and some vague themes (control, prophecy, silence, rebirth), but not a solid story to carry them.
The film leans heavily on visual symbolism (the goat-baby, the mute cult, the fire, etc.) without anchoring those symbols in a coherent story. So it looks meaningful, but doesn't say much.
Azrael is more of a symbol than a character with a clear arc. We don't really know what she thinks, wants, or feels-so it's hard to invest in her journey.
The modern truck and speaking driver feel like a twist for the sake of a twist, not something organically built into the story.
In the end, it feels like the filmmakers had a cool aesthetic and some vague themes (control, prophecy, silence, rebirth), but not a solid story to carry them.
I watch movies through all the time even if I don't like them because I feel that if I already started watching it would be a waste of time to just stop. However, this was a waste of time sitting through the whole boring weak story line movie. The best part of it was a few minutes Cathy Bates and Danny Glover were in it. I love all the actors in it, and they get a good job acting, however the story boring, did I already say it was boring? So much fluff and dragging on. Did they really have to show the frogs for a good five minutes? And was all this supposed to be in just one night when traveling from New York City to Long Island to see frogs takes hours.
In this new season of 20/20 I have noticed they repeat the same thing over and over for two hours. When I first noticed this many episodes ago I thought it was perhaps a glitch that it was re-showing the first hour of the show. I have since now been recording the show, watching the first five minutes, and fast forwarding to the last half hour. I guess that's not good news for the advertisers. Unbelievably unfortunate for this long running show. It's not only repeating it, they use the same clips, and the same interviews, one clip I went back and counted five times over two hours. How lazy, poor editing, and undisputed redundancy.