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<blockquote data-quote="Mel O&#039;Drama" data-source="post: 377523" data-attributes="member: 23"><p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-size: 22px">The Owners</span></strong> (2020)</p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><img src="https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2F1.bp.blogspot.com%2F-f9WUGt91LHQ%2FX2AF3nN-wXI%2FAAAAAAAADpE%2FR9bPm4N0OCQRzazLiNzIE-fMlv9RQ70kgCLcBGAsYHQ%2Fs1600%2Fthe_owners-878347869-large.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=679d21f47ffed7fae3bcb3a75c45ae15154ae055e53905f9bbde32ac2b5fe6f2&ipo=images" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 540px" /></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center">This has been in my watch list for a long time, and last night was the night. Scrolling past it regularly and seeing some lines of descriptive text gave me everything I knew about the film before watching: it's a home invasion story starring Maisie Williams. Beyond this, expectations were low.</p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center">Ten minutes or so into the film, I started to feel I'd made a mistake. It certainly didn't feel like glossy escapism. The younger characters felt grungy and incredibly real in a <em>Trainspotting</em> kind of way. We spent time with them in a car in their trackies as they did their drugs and planned a burglary. The beginning of the burglary itself also felt uncomfortably real, and I found myself getting infuriated as one of them went round trashing someone's nice house for fun. There didn't seem to be a redeeming quality between them.</p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center">Mainly on the basis of Rita Tushingham and Sylvester McCoy's names in the credits, I stuck with it, and it was worth persevering. There are some nice twists thrown in that change the way I view characters and, once all the small cast is present and doing their thing , everything clicks horrifically into place. There are some terrific performances. Rita Tushingham is the standout. I couldn't take my eyes off her and the range she shows in this film is astounding. She certainly still has it.</p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center">I wouldn't call it comfortable, enjoyable or pleasant to watch. Even "entertaining" is debatable. And I'm not sure I'd want to watch it again. All the same, as a showcase of humanity at its ugliest and darkest it was a morbidly fascinating experience that - for me at least - made it well worth the time invested.</p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Yes, that's the issue I had. The sensibilities were just a tad too Millennial to give the Gen-Z PC schtick the contempt it truly deserved.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I have a vague recollection (which may or may not be accurate) that we last saw the podcaster talking to Jamie's friend as she worked on the time machine, so I drew the same conclusion as you: that he attacked her off-screen in order to access the machine.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>That sums it up nicely.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Thanks for saving me the trouble. I almost added it to my watch list a couple of days ago.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mel O'Drama, post: 377523, member: 23"] [CENTER][B][SIZE=6]The Owners[/SIZE][/B] (2020) [IMG width="540px"]https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2F1.bp.blogspot.com%2F-f9WUGt91LHQ%2FX2AF3nN-wXI%2FAAAAAAAADpE%2FR9bPm4N0OCQRzazLiNzIE-fMlv9RQ70kgCLcBGAsYHQ%2Fs1600%2Fthe_owners-878347869-large.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=679d21f47ffed7fae3bcb3a75c45ae15154ae055e53905f9bbde32ac2b5fe6f2&ipo=images[/IMG] This has been in my watch list for a long time, and last night was the night. Scrolling past it regularly and seeing some lines of descriptive text gave me everything I knew about the film before watching: it's a home invasion story starring Maisie Williams. Beyond this, expectations were low. Ten minutes or so into the film, I started to feel I'd made a mistake. It certainly didn't feel like glossy escapism. The younger characters felt grungy and incredibly real in a [I]Trainspotting[/I] kind of way. We spent time with them in a car in their trackies as they did their drugs and planned a burglary. The beginning of the burglary itself also felt uncomfortably real, and I found myself getting infuriated as one of them went round trashing someone's nice house for fun. There didn't seem to be a redeeming quality between them. Mainly on the basis of Rita Tushingham and Sylvester McCoy's names in the credits, I stuck with it, and it was worth persevering. There are some nice twists thrown in that change the way I view characters and, once all the small cast is present and doing their thing , everything clicks horrifically into place. There are some terrific performances. Rita Tushingham is the standout. I couldn't take my eyes off her and the range she shows in this film is astounding. She certainly still has it. I wouldn't call it comfortable, enjoyable or pleasant to watch. Even "entertaining" is debatable. And I'm not sure I'd want to watch it again. All the same, as a showcase of humanity at its ugliest and darkest it was a morbidly fascinating experience that - for me at least - made it well worth the time invested. [/CENTER] Yes, that's the issue I had. The sensibilities were just a tad too Millennial to give the Gen-Z PC schtick the contempt it truly deserved. I have a vague recollection (which may or may not be accurate) that we last saw the podcaster talking to Jamie's friend as she worked on the time machine, so I drew the same conclusion as you: that he attacked her off-screen in order to access the machine. That sums it up nicely. Thanks for saving me the trouble. I almost added it to my watch list a couple of days ago. [/QUOTE]
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