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<blockquote data-quote="Angela Channing" data-source="post: 353078" data-attributes="member: 33">Alice, Darling (2022)<img src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BZjQwYWUzOTItY2FmOS00NjE4LWIzNGQtZjI4MmJkMmFiNjJiXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMjM4NTM5NDY@._V1_FMjpg_UX1000_.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 325px" />Well, this was disappointing. Alice has a controlling boyfriend. She has to lie to him that she is going on a work trip when she really is going away with 2 female friends for a week to celebrate one of their birthdays. When she is away, she slowly reveals some of the coercive behaviour she is subjected to at home. While I think it was interesting not to go down the predictable route of showing a lot of the trauma and manipulation that Alice receives from her boyfriend, the film felt slow and dull without those details. Even the finale was more low key that I would have liked. It&#039;s a shame because it could have been so much better.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Angela Channing, post: 353078, member: 33"] Alice, Darling (2022) [IMG width="325px"]https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BZjQwYWUzOTItY2FmOS00NjE4LWIzNGQtZjI4MmJkMmFiNjJiXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMjM4NTM5NDY@._V1_FMjpg_UX1000_.jpg[/IMG] Well, this was disappointing. Alice has a controlling boyfriend. She has to lie to him that she is going on a work trip when she really is going away with 2 female friends for a week to celebrate one of their birthdays. When she is away, she slowly reveals some of the coercive behaviour she is subjected to at home. While I think it was interesting not to go down the predictable route of showing a lot of the trauma and manipulation that Alice receives from her boyfriend, the film felt slow and dull without those details. Even the finale was more low key that I would have liked. It's a shame because it could have been so much better. [/QUOTE]

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