This movie was another highlight of the month for me.
This Netflix movie starrs thee legend Christian Bale (“Amsterdam”), Harry Melling (Netflix’s “The Devil All The Time”), Lucy Boynton (“Locked Down”), Fred Hechinger (“Pam & Tommy”), Toby Jones (“The Wonder”), just to name a few.
This Netflix movie was directed by Scott Cooper.
This movie was released on January 6th 2023 on Netflix. It is a Crime/Horror/Thriller/Mystery. This movie was rated R for violence and bloody imagery.
Onto the premise: A world-weary detective is hired to investigate the murder of a West Point cadet. Stymied by the cadets’ code of silence, he enlists one of their own to help unravel the case – a young man the world would come to know as Edgar Allan Poe.
Edgar Allen Poe, I assume you have heard of him. Depending on your level of knowledge .. I reckon you may know certain things better than others. This is based on a book by someone else and Poe is not the central figure, but more like … well you’ll have to watch to figure out his role in all of this.
But the movie is not made to be accurate to historical figures I assume.
Still crows do appear and maybe some other things that you feel have to be in a movie that has Poe in it.
Those well let’s call them outside factors aside, the movie knows what it wants and knows how to present it.
The visuals are amazing!
Cinematography mainly! And while the movie plays outside a lot, we do have some buildings and insides that play a role.
The movie focuses on the people/characters/actors rather than the rooms. Not that the rooms aren’t very well structured too.
You’ll understand when you see the movie.
But focusing on other things, make a central location stick out even more … not just visually but also tonally … you are not just seeing the house and it’s design and rooms … you hear it too … literally! And that helps a lot too.
Then you have the dialog as well as a script that is really tight .. with quite a few twists and turns. Things that do make sense …
You will view things with a different set of eyes so to speak … and characters too. I thought about how the movie would introduce all the characters … but it was able to do just that … and we will get emotional and inside their heads … and minds. And understand motives.
Overall I really enjoyed this movie. Loved Christian Bale’s character as thee legendary poet Poe! In my opinion this movie was a great movie to feel all those halloween feels all over again, after Wednesday, of course.
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