{"id":35995,"date":"2022-05-29T20:12:30","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T01:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=35995"},"modified":"2022-05-29T20:12:30","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T01:12:30","slug":"belated-movie-reviews-755","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/05\/29\/belated-movie-reviews-755\/","title":{"rendered":"Belated Movie Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sing soprano and I’ll cut you off at the knees, kid!<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

In The Sleeper<\/strong><\/em><\/a> (2000) elderly Violet Moon has been earning a bit on the side by running seances<\/em>, those wee little dramas wherein a medium<\/em>, or gatekeeper to the spirits of the dead, speaks to said dead for the benefit of those living who loved the dead.<\/p>\n

Or just makes shit up, as Harry Houdini<\/a> might have said.<\/p>\n

But Violet neither foresees or even sees older adopted sister, Cath, acquired when her father married Cath’s mother. But, then, this is not a surprise: Cath has been in and out of prisons and asylums since the day, as a child, she clumsily bumped her mother off the top floor of a castle to the waiting stone floor, below.<\/p>\n

Cath knows she’s clumsy because, well, her mother had told her that for all her life. Up to that point.<\/p>\n

But at the seance, Cath, visiting from the old folks’ home with roommate Lillian, recognizes Violet. Violet, who went on to marry a dairy farmer, have a son, Fergus, and daughter, >name forgotten<, be widowed, and now is fighting to keep the farm going, despite various challenges.<\/p>\n

Challenges that have discouraged Fergus into considering selling out, as his wife encourages.<\/p>\n

But when Cath arrives to settle accounts with Violet, she disappears. Soon, Lillian and another oldster, George, arrive, find nothing, and are shooed away – but the nephew of Fergus has found a possession of Cath’s laying in the workyard.<\/p>\n

And then Fergus’ wife<\/em> goes missing, in the midst of a storm.<\/p>\n

And what is going on with Fergus and who I think is his … sister?<\/p>\n

And the poor old cops, having to deal with … poo slurry.<\/p>\n

For all this interesting and mystifying plot, I never really got hooked by the story. Perhaps the British culture is off-putting for me, for the acting and script and sense of humor are fairly fine. But, taken as a whole, there’s a certain unpleasant sordidness to it, as if everyone has a dirty secret hidden in their knickers. Hell, even the administrator of the old folks’ home was, well, a bit repulsive.<\/p>\n

But, as I said, it’s all nicely done. Sordidness with, ah, style?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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