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The Monster (2016)
painfully tedious, loooong and booooooring (may contain spoilers)
This movie depicts some very serious issues involving child abuse, alcoholism and child neglect.
These issues in themselves would each make entirely separate movies.
However, this movie forces itself into painful contortions in an attempt to marry a creature feature together with a weird childhood drama seen from a teenybopper perspective.
It literally becomes painful to watch.
This is the first movie that I've ever watched where I've found myself so completely longing for the utter vampiric soul draining tedium to conclude.
The audience is not given any background on how the generic one dimensional monster that was was seen for a about 2 to 3 minutes during the whole film came into existence.
It left the audience scratching their heads after no police ever showed up to a car accident while a tow truck operator "worked" under the car for what seemed to be hours.
I like the whole concept of sublime randomness but for Heaven's sake, at least make an effort to give such unexpected surprise shifts some purpose and even a little poetry.
This movie seemed like one of the longest movies I've ever watched and left me completely drained.
Could have been a better movie if it had a theme that made sense and maybe even had a soul. I would have even had a tiny amount of satisfaction had the monster been a metaphor for the family's dysfunction.
so, at the end of the day, the first grader's painting is hanging on his mother's fridge and the sun is yellow, the grass is green, the sky is blue and the monster is ...yes "The Monster".