The House that Jack Built (2018)
Sixth review goes to this art-house, chaotic, nutty ass horror movie The House that Jack Built. My head’s still spinning. Includes #spoilers :
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The House that Jack Built (2018) Definitely was an art film, made me think of Watermelon Woman and a little bit Six Degrees of Separation with the use of archival images and inclusion of random art and history facts.
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Pros: It was well shot, uuused the budget boy. Storytelling was engaging, the dialogue seemed well thought out and most of the incidents were exciting where you didn’t know what was about to happen.
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Cons: I’m curious what didn’t make it in the final edit cuz 2 and a half hours?! I fastforwarded a bunch of times, through the punishing dialogue with the shorty with the titties and the climbing around the ring of hell. Pace and tone were a mess. I get that he is a white homocidal psychopath and good at manipulation, but the clumsyness of him killing & the fact that these women off-rip see something wrong with him but their naïveté or bluntness about seeing something bad in him is a weird justification for their death. Both when he got into the railway workers wife’s house and the titty chick I didn’t believe that these women would not try to damage him. They all just look at him shocked and legit no one fights back. My face after an hour was like this 😐 Just trying to get through it so that the flash back narration would make sense. And this is definitely based on Dante’s Inferno, but making this a film and not a multi character series doesn’t make sense to me. We follow one guy and we don’t see his death just memories and him meeting Virgil. I allow the artistic and metaphorical imagery especially at the end, like not taking it all literal but I didn’t need all that or even most of that.
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I rate it a 6, because the house in the end that he built was nuts. I learned some new things, nothing led me to sympathize with him, and I was mostly entertained. I think I would recommend the Dante’s Inferno animation over this, but it’s not a bad film. I personally could go the rest of my whole life not seeing another crazy ass white man.
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