virginia-97 Reviews

Gypsy (2017)

No one gets it!

[6/10 · 14 April 2021]

This story is complete in one season. I'm giving it 6 points, because no one seems to get it (point not clear enough) or it could have been a movie.

Jean's patients (and lesbian love interest) are ALL HER, just different sides of her persona. This is actually revealed in several scenes too: if you reach the final episode, then pay attention to the morning coffee scene at home.

Her psychotherapy sessions are unprofessional, because it's actually her, an ordinary woman dealing with her different roles: the young addict, the overbearing mother, the guy enchanted by a reckless lover, and she is the reckless lover too, feeling unappreciated.

She deals with the "patients" (aka relationship with herself) the best she can: smoothing and forging relationships, writing fake letters (smothering mother-letting go of daughter topic), trying to convince the Sam guy to choose a stable partner first, then doing a u-turn and telling him to choose Sidney instead as a more exciting partner. Doing this life thing is hard. She is unprofessional just like we all are in life, because she is not a therapist: she is just a woman dealing with her life. They're all her.

Half Light (2006)

This movie has been summarized dozens of times, so no going there.

[6/10 · 30 January 2009]

What I wanted to add in the previous comments and wonderings is: 1. How did Angus/ Patrick know, WHEN to disappear exactly? He completely relied on the assumption that Rachel would start asking the villagers about her date and then find out that it must have been a "ghost" that she was waiting for. Patrick had very little time to move out from the lighthouse. May I also add that it is quite impossible to set the house as if nobody had been using it for 7 years... She went thorough the rooms, opened the fridge... 2. Rachel did not wonder at all, HOW her stereotype friend Sharon got to the island 3. Sharon and the husband... Brian, was it? They had it all planned out- why did they arrange the finale so that they would all come together, thus have no alibis and be right on the spot, where the "suicide" was supposed to take place? An extra comment for point 1: if you ask me, I would have been either embarrassed for being stood up to start asking villagers in the party, where is my new boyfriend OR I would have thought that something inevitable came up, thus the new boy being late. A lighthouse emergency or smth. A woman her age already knows the little trick of giving some space... 4. And why go through all that trouble, I wonder? Would it not have been so much easier to stage a simple suicide- a mother taking her life for not standing the pain of "leaving the gate open and not being there for her son"? Brian would have got all the money for himself.

BUT despite my criticism above...

I saw the movie last night from TV;I had just finished unpacking my stuff after being away from home for about a week and the couch felt really comfortable. I am giving this movie 6/10 for being something easy to watch, not too scary, not too complicated. And Angus was cute in both appearance and person.