Can I just say that this movie was not for me? I really felt like I was very much not the target audience for this. It seemed the film achieved what it wanted to achieve, so I can't really say I fault the decisions made in making this. It is after all a re-imagining of the 1971 film that starred Clint Eastwood, which itself is based on the 1966 novel by Thomas P Cullinan. It terms of adapting the original source materials, Director Sofia Coppola captured that civil war era atmosphere of the South, and tackled the subject matter of the story pretty well.
Why do I say this is not for me then? I suppose the title of the movie explains it. The definition of "Beguiled" is someone charmed or enchanted by deceptive ways. That is essentially the movie's premise. You've got a house full of females, and one male. If this was a sex comedy, then you can already guess what would happen. Since this is not a sex comedy, let's just say that what happened isn't exactly humorous. There is however a lot of flirting, jealousy, crushing, and suspiciousness going on, which is what frustrated me about the movie.
The plot of having Colin Farrell's character try and charm the women of the household into getting his way, plus those women themselves trying to get his attention to get their way, was frankly frustrating for me. The movie could argue that it does so to build all that tension into the eventual climax of the story, plus the whole cast themselves are all greatly deserving of our attention. I don't disagree with those points. The suspense brought by the tension is done well enough, and the whole cast are good, Even so, I still wanted the 93 minutes movie run-time to be shorter.
Maybe if the movie was a bit more out there, or went even farther than it did, I probably would have liked it more. For the most part, it was surprisingly more reserved in it's shock value than the premise would let on. Should have went all out with the subject matter.
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