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The Letter (2012)
First review I've ever written
I rented this movie because initially I was a fan of James Franco... I did not even know what it was about nor did I care much because if it was a thriller with him, it's good enough for me to see in my down time. Now, enough about me... The movie itself; I feel like it is completely underrated, thus the review... The acting by the characters, I thought was amazing... The plot was simplistic at its best, in my viewpoint... there could have been two variations of what occurred; either Winona's character was honestly just bored with life in general and had hidden desires for Franco and thus created a world where all those familiar to her and she trusted had wronged her to give her an excuse to "take" action on her deeper feelings for this new man (the attempt to "kiss") OR her boyfriend was just a dirt bag who was wronging her from the very beginning. I found the story and the filming extremely interesting and refreshing in the sense that it really made you dive deep and think into the psychology of each character. Every point in the movie had indications leading you further into thinking more deeply. The bottom line as I saw it is that it's easy to see the main character as a psychotic and to "imagine" everything going on, it's a harder thought to see it is as the main character coming to terms with the fact that everyone around her is betraying her and thus her changing the script and using the "play" as her tool to deal with the actual reality that her boyfriend is cheating on her and that everyone around her knows it. I think just as in life, this movie tries to express that point; while things are clear to others, they make not be as clear to us as individuals who are invested. In a last note, I believe it is extremely difficult to attempt to film a movie in a first person narrative, so I completely applaud this one... It made me think and I enjoyed it, there should be more pieces like this.