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14 January
Most likely since - in adapting Molly Bloom's original book for cinema - the screenwriter (Aaron Sorkin) is also directing his first film, he often doesn't seem to temper himself his script :— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) January 15, 2018
The prime asset of film is visual, yet he uses it too little, not to narrate, but show.
As usual, all being compiled into some sort of #UCFF response, located at :https://t.co/8epwdEwM4O pic.twitter.com/UXz0ZEu7gp— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) January 15, 2018
In @Mollys_Game (2017), is the scene with Molly Bloom’s (Jessica Chastain's) father (Kevin Costner), after the dangerous escapade of ice-skating in Central Park, meant to be fantasy ?— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) January 11, 2018
At any rate, it plays like a version of Good Will Hunting (1997) - unrelatedly and on speed ! pic.twitter.com/0wjzZ0Dte7
When not supposedly being both therapist and self-critical father, Larry Bloom is otherwise shown as a beastly father, ignoring his wife’s pleas for Molly, and invoking the word weak as an alleged synonym for tired : perfectly psychologically reasonable, then, that both Player X (Michael Cera) and, before him, Dean Keith (Jeremy Strong), prove dangerously attractive as the types of character who like to crush others (even if it can also be personally costly to know them).
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Post-script :
In @tnyshouts: "Sometimes I can see Jessica (Chastain) calmly and silently counting to ten and trying not to roll her eyes, as she waits for the mostly male imbeciles nearby to catch up." https://t.co/HToGGw0F57 pic.twitter.com/bEn2uZx8kR
— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) January 30, 2018
Delightfully seductive though it is to make inferences about a film-star from his or her roles (not knowing the ones that were turned down, or the ones wanted, but not secured), a generalization about the parts played needs to fit... Stretching to fit them in doesn't help. -> https://t.co/oRlJhdN7Kq
— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) January 30, 2018
As long as she has a career, Molly does what she does very well, but keeps having to be told that *she* funds her operation by uncalled-in debts, etc., and is shown crashed, and narrated to be depressed and abusing substances to stay awake for long times, not sipping white wine ?
— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) January 30, 2018
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Unless stated otherwise, all films reviewed were screened at Festival Central (Arts Picturehouse, Cambridge)
