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The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)

Drama | 121 minutes
3,38 849 votes

Genre: Thriller

Duration: 121 minuten

Country: Ireland / United Kingdom

Directed by: Yorgos Lanthimos

Stars: Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman and Barry Keoghan

IMDb score: 7,0 (211.618)

Releasedate: 20 October 2017

The Killing of a Sacred Deer plot

Steven (Colin Farrell) is a charismatic and brilliant surgeon who takes a young teenager under his wing. In the beginning, this youngster interferes in the life of Steven's family and slowly disrupts the daily routine. However, it is becoming increasingly worrisome and threatening. There is only one possible outcome: an unthinkable sacrifice.

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illymens

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It's been a long time since I watched a movie that was so disappointing. The film was at times so uncomfortably ridiculous and cringe-inducing that the audience started laughing. Slow, agonizingly slow, boring....but there came a moment when I thought; now it gets interesting! Unfortunately, even more crazier and boring gang. All completely insane, meaningless characters and just weak acting. And to give the film some "tension" and "atmosphere", there is a drunken hooligan in the orchestra pit who misses the piano 4 times and someone with a musical saw. The moments when those noises are used also make no sense at all. I will not recommend this movie to anyone.

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Ferdydurke

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It seems that Lanthimos has tried with this film to leave the viewer in the dark at all times whether a situation is comic, or ridiculous, or tragic, or dramatic.

You would say: there is a good chance that it will be 'none of all' for that viewer. Either-or-or is nothing; and-and-and, on the other hand, is everything. But to achieve the latter, that is only given to a few.

I am afraid that we are dealing here with the former case. It's as if Lanthimos keeps building something, only to tear it down the next moment. Much also seems to come down to a repetition of moves. That is perhaps why the whole enterprise seems to be dragging on so painfully slowly.

At the same time, you can see that Lanthimos can of course do something, but the various scenes that are sometimes quite nice in themselves do not string together into one whole, remain a bit in the air, just like the 'horrifying' soundtrack, which is due to lack of real tension. loses function, and is therefore mainly irritating.

It is also only a very thin nail on which this rather thick painting hangs: the crux is communicated to us somewhere halfway, and the rest of the film is the completion of it. Seemingly charming in its simplicity, yet coming across as a gigantic, magical trick to trigger something that, well, doesn't want to get very interesting. Using an elephant to give birth to a mouse.

Okay, my metaphors aren't too good either, but my point is that this shouldn't have left the drawing board yet.

Tering, it was cold in Kriterion. And then turn on the air conditioning. I won't be there this winter.

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