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<blockquote data-quote="Willie Oleson" data-source="post: 428684" data-attributes="member: 8">THE GOOD NEIGHBOR (2016) [ATTACH=full]57044[/ATTACH]This was a surprisingly unpleasant film, and I don&#039;t mean unpleasant as in &quot;video nasty&quot; or because it&#039;s badly made, it&#039;s just a very unfriendly film.I don&#039;t know how old the young men are supposed to be, but as a rule in film: if they look young they are teenagers.They&#039;re making a video project to prove a theory that intentional outside interference can change the way people think.&nbsp; Does that need to be proven at all, I wonder, but anyway it&#039;s all going to be very sensational and their video will get a million likes and they&#039;ll become youtube celebrities.It&#039;s clear that one of the boys is the leader and the other one follows, which could have been a story of itself.Their &quot;lab rat&quot; is a anti-social and grumpy old neighboUr and the story from the boy&#039;s point of view suggests that he has something to hide. In other words, the old man is a bad person and you&#039;ll probably think that everything will unfold as you have seen before.They break into his house and cram the place with cameras and special effects equipment in order to orchestrate a &quot;haunted house&quot;, and all this stuff is manipulated and recorded from the boy&#039;s bedroom.The motivation for the project changes after a while, especially when they&#039;re not getting the sensational stuff they were hoping for.Cue the obligatory American Gothic basement with a big fat lock on the door. Ah, that&nbsp; must be it.Tragedy strikes and, to be fair, in a rather unexpected way.The courtroom scene explains in flashback style who the real person behind the grumpy old man was.I&#039;m not a big fan of this &quot;telling&quot; cinema. It&#039;s good enough for a MATLOCK episode but here it feels a bit tacked on. Furthermore, it&#039;s completely unrelated to the teenage boys.I guess the final scene conveys the principle of &quot;there&#039;s no such thing as bad publicity&quot; but overall it&#039;s too lukewarm for my taste.Unpleasant and somewhat unsatisfying, but it has plenty of effective red herrings.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Willie Oleson, post: 428684, member: 8"] THE GOOD NEIGHBOR (2016) [ATTACH type="full"]57044[/ATTACH] This was a surprisingly unpleasant film, and I don't mean unpleasant as in "video nasty" or because it's badly made, it's just a very unfriendly film. I don't know how old the young men are supposed to be, but as a rule in film: if they look young they are teenagers. They're making a video project to prove a theory that intentional outside interference can change the way people think. Does that need to be proven at all, I wonder, but anyway it's all going to be very sensational and their video will get a million likes and they'll become youtube celebrities. It's clear that one of the boys is the leader and the other one follows, which could have been a story of itself. Their "lab rat" is a anti-social and grumpy old neighboUr and the story from the boy's point of view suggests that he has something to hide. In other words, the old man is a bad person and you'll probably think that everything will unfold as you have seen before. They break into his house and cram the place with cameras and special effects equipment in order to orchestrate a "haunted house", and all this stuff is manipulated and recorded from the boy's bedroom. The motivation for the project changes after a while, especially when they're not getting the sensational stuff they were hoping for. Cue the obligatory American Gothic basement with a big fat lock on the door. Ah, [I]that[/I] must be it. Tragedy strikes and, to be fair, in a rather unexpected way. The courtroom scene explains in flashback style who the real person behind the grumpy old man was. I'm not a big fan of this "telling" cinema. It's good enough for a MATLOCK episode but here it feels a bit tacked on. Furthermore, it's completely unrelated to the teenage boys. I guess the final scene conveys the principle of "there's no such thing as bad publicity" but overall it's too lukewarm for my taste. Unpleasant and somewhat unsatisfying, but it has plenty of effective red herrings. [/QUOTE]

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