Friday, April 24, 2009

Killing Me Softly

What caught my eye was the title as it shared the name with a song which I quite like (the Fugees' cover). The movie was about a woman (Graham) that leaves her boyfriend for some random dude who she later realizes may have killed his ex-girlfriend. I didn't like the movie. Some of the problems it had:

-It was cheesy
-Bad acting
-It wasn't really clear as to who the main guy's alleged "sister" exactly was to him. I think in the second scene with her, while Graham was climbing one of those indoor "rock" walls, the "siblings" were kissing in an inappropriate way for siblings to. It was hard to tell and the scene switched right after they appeared to kiss. It was never clarified who she was to him. In the end, he told Graham that they "knew each other as children" or something. Actually, now that I think of it, I think the guy even said it was his sister. Why?
-Graham finally realized through receiving notes and other hints warning her to stay away from him that he was probably dangerous and had possibly killed someone, but went back to their home anyway. Though scared of him, she allowed him to tie her up on a table. He non-forcefully put each limb into a knotted rope and she could easily have fought him off, but she didn't. It looked as though she could have untied herself, but she instead asked him to untie her. Eventually he did when she told him she was confused when he wasn't around or some junk.
-The ending with her going down an escalator and seeing the guy (a renowned mountain climber) going up the escalator was cheesy. She thought, "I'm a flatlander, I guess I can't be up at those altitudes." It was brought up a time or two that she was a"flatlander" and he was a mountain climber. "Who knew a flatlander would land a mountain climber?" "She probably hasn't even climbed stairs." It was weird.

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