http://ambival.net/movies/the-woodsman Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 19 Jul 2008 10:45:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://ambival.net/movies/the-woodsman#comment-10788 Ambival.net » Movie Reviews » Hard Candy Tue, 29 May 2007 18:59:44 +0000 http://ambival.net/?p=319#comment-10788 [...] Somehow, towards the end, it just clicked with me and I just began to seriously dig the extremes of the whole matter. Whether I like it or not, it got to me, and got me in more of a muddle over the reviewing process (as is probably horrifically evident) than expected (and frankly, I expected to be stumped). I’m not dumb enough to ignore a movie that affects me that much just ‘cos I didn’t want to like it and probably will take a while to watch again. Though I’d recommend Little Children, The Woodsman, Chris Morris’ “Brass Eye” special, a little reading about the badly fluffed UK police Operation Ore, more, I can’t deny, this is a pretty brassy, peculiarly cinematic considering the subject, piece of work that, no matter what end of the argument you reside on, needs as open an approach as you can muster. [...] [...] Somehow, towards the end, it just clicked with me and I just began to seriously dig the extremes of the whole matter. Whether I like it or not, it got to me, and got me in more of a muddle over the reviewing process (as is probably horrifically evident) than expected (and frankly, I expected to be stumped). I’m not dumb enough to ignore a movie that affects me that much just ‘cos I didn’t want to like it and probably will take a while to watch again. Though I’d recommend Little Children, The Woodsman, Chris Morris’ “Brass Eye” special, a little reading about the badly fluffed UK police Operation Ore, more, I can’t deny, this is a pretty brassy, peculiarly cinematic considering the subject, piece of work that, no matter what end of the argument you reside on, needs as open an approach as you can muster. [...]

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