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<blockquote data-quote="Willie Oleson" data-source="post: 415359" data-attributes="member: 8">THE GIFT (2015)[ATTACH=full]55123[/ATTACH]An impulsive rewatch because I didn&#039;t remember much of the story or how I felt about it, which is usually very telling but I decided to do it anyway.Definitely a low budget genre piece&nbsp; - it&#039;s as if they&#039;ve put The Cable Guy, The Hand That Rocks The Cradle and Cape Fear in a blender - but the characters are written in such way that it makes me wonder how&nbsp; much of the revenge and comeuppance are justified. Interesting arguments are given from both sides and the story doesn&#039;t offer much closure for these characters, and this element of Greek tragedy puts it a notch above the standard crazy-revenge flicks.Jason Bateman is great as the a**hole husband who wants to control the narrative in a benign-but-almost-exploding &quot;I understand what you&#039;re saying&quot; kind of way.The sets look typically-modern boring and colourless (although that didn&#039;t stop them from bragging about the wife&#039;s terrific decoration job)&nbsp; and since all the action happens there it&#039;s not an awesome picture to look at.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Willie Oleson, post: 415359, member: 8"] THE GIFT (2015) [ATTACH type="full"]55123[/ATTACH] An impulsive rewatch because I didn't remember much of the story or how I felt about it, which is usually very telling but I decided to do it anyway. Definitely a low budget genre piece - it's as if they've put The Cable Guy, The Hand That Rocks The Cradle and Cape Fear in a blender - but the characters are written in such way that it makes me wonder [I]how[/I] much of the revenge and comeuppance are justified. Interesting arguments are given from both sides and the story doesn't offer much closure for these characters, and this element of Greek tragedy puts it a notch above the standard crazy-revenge flicks. Jason Bateman is great as the a**hole husband who wants to control the narrative in a benign-but-almost-exploding "I understand what you're saying" kind of way. The sets look typically-modern boring and colourless (although that didn't stop them from bragging about the wife's terrific decoration job) and since all the action happens there it's not an awesome picture to look at. [/QUOTE]

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