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Debris (2021)
Almost
Great premise that is enticing and can go in any direction. But disappointing in several ways.
First, the production is awesome, it looks amazing, and the special effects are terrific. I thought the casting was fine (though some apparently do not).
Spoilers
Here is my problem with shows like this. You have a crisis wrapped in a supernatural mystery, and the protagonist has some insight that solves the puzzle in a way that should otherwise be incomprehensible. In this case, Tom surmises that if the daughter can "get through" to her levitating dead-not-dead mother, then everything will somehow be resolved.
How Tom arrives at that conclusion isn't explained, nor is there any doubt that it will transpire this way.
And that's exactly what happens. The daughter says some sweet stuff to her mom, she drops to the table, gasps and poof!, everyone wakes up, the spirt kid disappears and everything is all good.
I totally get that you need plot devices to move the story forward, and to give a resolution to the storyline within that episode. But this is a cliché' that I assume will be part of these episodes, and I think they are tiresome.
That said, I'm giving it a shot. There is a lot to like, even with my annoyances.
33 Postcards (2010)
Disappointing
When I read the premise of this film, and some of the other enthusiastic reviews, I was quite excited about it. I really enjoy Guy Pearce, and this sounded like a winner. Unfortunately, this movie is flawed in so many ways.
Spoilers
First, we see Mei Mei growing up in an orphanage, and we learn she has a sponsor, Dean Randall, who has been providing for her, and writing to her. But this is glossed over so quickly, and it would have been nice to see how that relationship developed, even though he was making up his life story. We get snippets, but there is no depth to that story line.
Mei Mei never really develops much as a character. She seems very one- dimensional and lacking complexity. And overall, the characters are a collection of caricatures that are largely clichéd and melodramatic.
There are so many story lines that are just unnecessary and pointless. It seems that the writers didn't have the courage to let the two main characters interact and develop. Instead, we are served up a silly plot line where she is put in danger, and Dean has to rescue her.
Pearce does a good job with what he has been given, but he wasn't really give much of a script to work with, and we are left at the end with no real insight into what motivated him to sponsor this girl he never knew.
This could have been a terrific little film, and they just plain missed the opportunity.