Tuesday, July 31, 2018

Things I thought after rewatching Frailty

1. "I can't believe how accurate my memory of this movie is." Typically I forget scenes and transpose lines. But my recall of Frailty was almost shot-for-shot accurate. I suppose that's because it's a movie I've replayed in my mind constantly since the day I saw it.

2. "I wish I was watching this movie with an extremely religious person." The end of Frailty left me absolutely floored. For awhile I considered it one of cinema's greatest twists. But the second time through, I saw how completely Paxton telegraphed the solution. So was Frailty a twist film at all? Or did my secular paradigm make it impossible for me to put the clues together?

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