Cheryl is well and truly getting into the festive spirit as she enjoyed some time with her son Bear in Lapland UK.
02.12.2022 - 19:41 / deadline.com
It was fascinating to see my good colleague Valerie Complex describe, in her review of the Antoine Fuqua/Will Smith slavery drama Emancipation, having almost walked out of the film, not because it was unworthy, but because she found the depiction of Black suffering and death almost too much to watch.
In the end, Complex stuck with it. But her review ended with perhaps the most moving plea I’ve ever seen from a critic. “There has to be another way to tell these stories,” she wrote. “There has to be another way.”
Wow.
Sometimes, if you take movies seriously enough, you actually have to look away. Even the good ones—especially the good ones, perhaps—can be too intense, or too direct, or too emotionally unsettling for a thoughtful viewer.
So, very occasionally, you have to walk out. Many, I know, regard this as a crime against cinema. Every movie, after all, is somebody’s baby. To snub one, or appear to snub it, amounts to a public insult. And at the very least, it is a discourtesy to fellow viewers, one that can be mitigated only slightly be sitting in an exit-adjacent seat when you know that a potentially overwhelming experience lies ahead.
But it happens. At least, to me it does.
I’m pretty sure my first, dimly remembered walk-out occurred in 1984. I was reporting on movies for the Wall Street Journal back then, and considered it my professional duty to come to terms with A Nightmare On Elm Street. I made it through about twenty minutes at a theater on or near Times Square in New York, then stumbled out, gasping for breath. Clearly, my revulsion did no damage to Wes Craven, or to the makers of hundreds of horror films that have made many hundreds of millions of dollars since. It just wasn’t for me.
A few years later, I
Cheryl is well and truly getting into the festive spirit as she enjoyed some time with her son Bear in Lapland UK.
Well, it’s official, we guess!
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Musician and actor Wilko Johnson has sadly passed away at the age of 75.