The movie is full of these sorts of bits of sloppy writing and never-explained oddities, plus a timeline that’s hard to follow and makes little sense.īra shopping? So we must be getting into the “erotic” part of the erotic thriller now. (Warning: Stop reading here if you don’t want a serious spoiler.) This role is so thankless that Elaine eventually gets wantonly murdered! Wanton as in there is zero motive for anyone to murder her. Most egregious might be the treatment of a character named Elaine, which sticks actress Shanola Hampton in a retrograde and thankless “Black best friend” role that the script makes zero effort to elevate. There are tons of ridiculous moments you’re expected to breeze right by. There’s the way the deal with Mary’s publisher plays out: Two representatives show up to a meeting offering her big bucks to write a new book, and she acts completely indignant that they would have the nerve to ask such a thing. There was the aforementioned nonexplanation of how exactly Tom lost all that money. I know, it really doesn’t, but there’s something so haphazard about how all of this is laid out that it really kneecaps the movie’s potential.
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