This was not a challenging movie for Hollywood, ideologically. How difficult it must have been to convince a studio to fund a film in which Smaltown, America is shown for the homogeneous, prudish, uncreative and, worst of all, boring, place that it is.
You get the sense the director had an affair and this movie was his attempt to convince his wife it was better for everyone that he did. It's a stupid idea and an entire feature length movie saying as much just shouldn't be taken seriously.
The acting was good, the casting was good, the technical gimmick of selectively coloring things was all right (hadn't we been colorizing films for several decades by this point?). But the arrogant premise was just too much.
You get the sense the director had an affair and this movie was his attempt to convince his wife it was better for everyone that he did. It's a stupid idea and an entire feature length movie saying as much just shouldn't be taken seriously.
The acting was good, the casting was good, the technical gimmick of selectively coloring things was all right (hadn't we been colorizing films for several decades by this point?). But the arrogant premise was just too much.
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