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  • 8 years ago
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    After a few days of self-reflection/soul searching/blowing off steam/attempted suicide I feel I can come back to "Serena" and say, being completely calm, WHAT A PIECE OF SHIT THIS IS. FUCK THIS MOVIE, FUCK IT ALL THE WAY TO HELL AND BACK.

    OK seriously, just how does something with this much talent be this dreadful? And when I say dreadful I mean DREADFUL. This isn't a "OK, it's bad but has at lest something in it" level of bad. This is "Oh My God kill me now" level of bad. It absolutely baffles me just how bad "Serena" is. The talent is all here. The main actors current track record speaks for itself. Susanne Bier, while not the biggest name in the medium, is a capable & talented director, one who has in fact made one of my favorite films in "After the Wedding". With this type of competent talent I'd never expect the film to be THIS bad; I thought I'd might not completely enjoy it, but certainly I didn't think that I'd loathe it like I do. So then, Serena's problems can be best summed up in two words: "Melodramatic Shit". The tone Bier chooses for this film baffles me to no end. From what I could gather, "Serena" is an emotionally/character driven tale but love, jealously, & regret. Yet Bier chooses this Soap Opera type of approach and expects me to not only care/understand her characters but to not to laugh my ass off as well. This tone choice frustrates me to no end, it is painfully melodramatic. Then to top it off, Bier ends her film in the worse way possible. After about, what I say, is 1hr 40min of suffering, Bier ends her film in one the most lazy bit of symbolism that I've ever seen. Up to that point the film was around a score of 3 to me as the acting wasn't bad, per se, and the production value was quite nice. But this ending pushed me over the deep end and I just couldn't see anyway back. "Serena" is a train wreck in every sense, a film I bet Bier & company would soon like to forget ever happened. (2/10)
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