Who died in serenity movie8/6/2023 The big twist is revealed in its entirely at about the one hour mark, though you may have worked it out before hand. It’s obvious, too obvious really, and combined with the melodrama screams parody. Other times it’s noir to the max, as she walks down a rain-drenched jetty in the dark, the bright lights behind her, wearing a black trench coat and a black hat. Sometimes she looks as if she’s stepped out of a remake of Agatha Christie’s Evil Under The Sun. The costumes work hard, particularly Karen’s her red lipstick and thick, dyed blonde waves perfectly offset by her crisp white dress or silky nightie. It’s a brightly-coloured artificial world, the turquoise shipping container where Dill lives on the cliff, the scarlet village houses, Constance’s green interior decoration toning with her green-patterned robe that she keeps on every time she has sex, even the traffic light colours have an enhanced quality about them. Its natural world too is gorgeous, the morning sky a watercolour of mauve and pale blue. Plymouth Island is somewhere I’d happily be stuck, repeating the days over and over. It’s not a total disaster it looks stunning. The latter is not, considering how many would-be filmmakers never get a chance to make a movie, failure or otherwise. Ignominious failures are a different matter though, and there’s certainly a question to be asked over whether Serenity is a stab at something different or simply self-indulgence. I’m a big fan of oddness I actually like watching honourable failures that try to do something different, but fail wildly or potential works of genius that go spectacularly off the rails. Writer-director Steven Knight’s movie is very odd. It’s had terrible reviews, and despite its stars agreeing to promote it, the big roll-out never came. Anne Hathaway even took to Instagram to defend it, while acknowledging the response it’s had, in a post which just made me love her even more (even if I can’t find it in me to love her film).Īnne Hathaway’s Instagram post about reaction to “Serenity” The movie arrives on these shores on a wave of, well, disbelief really. Because Serenity isn’t satisfying, though it is overwhelming in its brightness, melodrama and many, many loose ends. Her plan is for Dill to take Frank out on his boat for some big guy fishing, get him drunk and push him overboard, to be eaten by sharks. It’s a simple plot and one I’d have liked to see play out, with some soul searching by Dill, and some hot ex-sex, before watching evil Frank being literally eaten by sharks. It’s clear Dill never sees Patrick (Rafael Sayegh), the tweenage son they had together, though father and son seem to be connected by their thoughts. She wants Dill to murder her second husband Frank (Jason Clarke), a hugely rich and very violent construction magnate who she ran off with while Dill was fighting in Iraq – and she’ll pay him $10 million, in cash. Then his ex-wife Karen (Anne Hathaway) turns up in the island’s only bar. But who wouldn’t like to do the same things each day in such a gorgeous place, all white sands, turquoise seas and brightly coloured town full of heart-of-gold locals? His life is certainly repetitive, from taking tourists out on his boat to catch big fish, to having sex with the sultry Constance (Diane Lane). He even gives the tuna a name, Justice, which is a bit like when my little sister got a kitten and we gave the eight week old, weeing bundle (the cat, not my sister) the rather ponderous monicker of Socrates.īaker Dill (Matthew McConaughey) lives on the beautiful Plymouth Island. Man and fish, inextricably linked, as is often the way between two foes in a movie. Its shadow lurks under and around his boat, but it always escapes. It could be a BBC Sunday night detective serial, about two young men running an organic farm café by day and solving hospitality industry-related murders by night.Īctually Dill is a fisherman and the tuna is a giant fish that eludes him. Maybe watch the movie then come back afterwards! And as I want to talk about those issues I’m going to have to spoiler it. WARNING: Serenity has some big issues as a movie but most of them relate to the bonkers twist.
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