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This week's Thursday Movie Picks is Domestic Thrillers
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A Simple Favor (2018)
Domestic Thriller is a thriller sub genre that is more often used to describe books and is a super hot sub genre in recent years with several of the big bestsellers having been adapted. So what is a domestic thriller, well as the term suggests it usually takes place in a domestic setting that is within the home and focuses on the relationships between husbands and wives, their children, immediate family or employees like babysitters and nannies. Sometimes the net of the setting is cast a little wider involving the neighbours whose lives intersect closely with the main family the story follows. I suppose what a domestic thriller likes to do is peek behind the curtain and asks the question what is really going on behind closed doors.
While there are domestic thrillers that are not adapted from books, I'm going to go through the extremely lazy route and pick domestic thrillers that I have read and seen their adaptations.
Gone Girl (2014)
I'm sure this will be really popular this week. How can one not think of Gone Girl when one thinks of domestic thrillers. It's a story of a toxic toxic marriage and remember how Amy presents a very false version of herself to one of her neighbours so that neighbour would come forward when she goes missing and present her preferred version making Nick look bad.
I'm sure this will be really popular this week. How can one not think of Gone Girl when one thinks of domestic thrillers. It's a story of a toxic toxic marriage and remember how Amy presents a very false version of herself to one of her neighbours so that neighbour would come forward when she goes missing and present her preferred version making Nick look bad.
Before I Go to Sleep (2014)
Since a terrible accident two decades earlier, a woman wakes up everyday still thinking she is in her late 20s, remembering nothing of the accident and her life after that, her mind resetting and unable to form any new memory after a full night's sleep. Can she trust the husband she wakes up next to, whom she doesn't recognize, or the secret psychiatrist she's been seeing or the secret diary that she's been keeping chronicling all the troubling yesterdays she has no memory of? I absolutely love the book and the movie is a little of a disappointment but still a decent thriller.
Since a terrible accident two decades earlier, a woman wakes up everyday still thinking she is in her late 20s, remembering nothing of the accident and her life after that, her mind resetting and unable to form any new memory after a full night's sleep. Can she trust the husband she wakes up next to, whom she doesn't recognize, or the secret psychiatrist she's been seeing or the secret diary that she's been keeping chronicling all the troubling yesterdays she has no memory of? I absolutely love the book and the movie is a little of a disappointment but still a decent thriller.
A Simple Favor (2018)
Stephanie a widowed mother and mommy blogger does a simple favor and help pick up her friend, Emily's kid after school only Emily never comes by at the end of her work day to collect him, she simply disappears. While helping out Emily's son and husband cope with their loss she increasing becomes a fixture in their family and soon begins an affair with Emily's husband at the same time also trying to investigate Emily's disappearance. I didn't like the book at all. I found the voice of the character in the mommy blogger parts just super annoying. It had to me seem like such a mediocre book, why wound anyone want to adapt it? Well having seen the movie, I think it is actually better than the book. Kendrick was able to make her character awkward thereby lessening the character's annoying-ness. The movie is also quite dark comedish poking fun at the glam fashionista lifestyle, living beyond your means and the whole blogging/vlogging.
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I wasn't a big fan of Before I Go to Sleep but I love Gone Girl and A Simple Favor. The latter was such a nice surprise!
ReplyDeleteA Simple Favor - Yes it was a surprise especially since I didn't like the book.
DeleteI love Gone Girl! Simple Favor was pretty decent too, but I've never seen Before I Go To Sleep.
ReplyDeleteI've heard of all three but have only seen Gone Girl. I liked it without loving it.
ReplyDeleteAfter sitting out last week because I had couldn't come up with even one pick these three came to me quickly this time out.
Rear Window (1954)-Photo-journalist “Jeff” Jeffries, wheelchair bound because of a badly broken leg combats the boredom of being confined to his apartment by watching the activities of his neighbors though his rear window. Late one night he thinks he witnesses one of them, Lars Thorwald (Raymond Burr), murder his wife but initially has trouble convincing anyone of the fact. Slowly with the help of his acerbic nurse Stella (Thelma Ritter) and fashion model girlfriend Lisa (Grace Kelly) he starts to put the pieces together but when Thorwald begins to suspect Jeff knows something the tables are dangerously turned.
Deceived (1991)-Art restorer Adrienne (Goldie Hawn) and museum curator Jack Saunders (John Heard) have a seemingly perfect life living in their restored New York City loft with their daughter Mary. But that life is thrown into turmoil when Jack’s boss dies under questionable circumstances. Jack starts acting strangely then suddenly leaves town purportedly on business raising Adrienne’s suspicions. Before he returns he is apparently killed in a car crash but when Adrienne files for his death benefits it turns out “Jack Saunders” died in a plane crash 20 years ago. So who was the man she married? As she searches for answers the truth becomes increasingly dark and very perilous.
Rosemary’s Baby (1968)-Young Rosemary Woodhouse (Mia Farrow) and struggling actor husband Guy (John Cassavetes) move into a New York City apartment building of sinister repute. When their odd new neighbors, Roman and Minnie Castavet (Sidney Blackmer & Ruth Gordon) become overly familiar Rosemary tries to back away but Guy, suddenly successful, welcomes them. Rosemary, now pregnant, becomes increasingly isolated and the diabolical truth of the matter is revealed only after Rosemary gives birth. One of Roman Polanski’s best films permeated with a sense of dread.
I had thought of going the oldie route. Then I would have also picked Rear Window, Rosemary's Baby and Rebecca.
DeleteA Simple Favour was so surprising. I don't know what I expected but it was so much better than that.
ReplyDeleteI think the dark humour made the movie better.
DeleteI just re-watched Gone Girl and that chick is one mean bitch. I have t seen the other 2 but they look good
ReplyDeleteShe's mean and crazy.
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