The writer/director wastes the time of everyone involved in this film, and everyone who mistakenly watches it. I know I indicated spoilers lurk within this review, but I'll try to avoid the more obvious ones.
In real life, we know that everyone is just about capable of everything. A trivial incident can send one person into a rage. In our films, however, we want more plausibility. We are able to sense when a character is not psychologically true.
If we accept that our protagonist is an intelligent, capable businesswoman, we must be provided with extremely good reasons for that character to go off the rails.
The film-makers are decidedly cynical when they inject quasi-Lesbianism for box-office returns.
They should instead have tried reading 'Business for Dummies' because it appears they know next to nothing about business life. (A smart person would know that to extensively humiliate a younger colleague in public, someone she herself had been mentoring, would reflect negatively on herself.)
I hope the actresses involved get some decent material to work with. Soon.
In real life, we know that everyone is just about capable of everything. A trivial incident can send one person into a rage. In our films, however, we want more plausibility. We are able to sense when a character is not psychologically true.
If we accept that our protagonist is an intelligent, capable businesswoman, we must be provided with extremely good reasons for that character to go off the rails.
The film-makers are decidedly cynical when they inject quasi-Lesbianism for box-office returns.
They should instead have tried reading 'Business for Dummies' because it appears they know next to nothing about business life. (A smart person would know that to extensively humiliate a younger colleague in public, someone she herself had been mentoring, would reflect negatively on herself.)
I hope the actresses involved get some decent material to work with. Soon.