But that's my own preference for a cinema that wanders visually through context. Although the premise is powerful, a bit too much of the film is spent in turning a plot. More could have been done to draw out connections. Another woman who goes around her fiancee's back, betraying love, is found murdered. ![]() ![]() There is an abusive redneck who victimizes his girlfriend. The horror film proper is about this anger unfurling outside. ![]() There's anger bubbling inside that clouds her intuition about emotional turmoil in her own home. When her eldest (who has school trouble and is distant owing to the loss) takes the bold step of coming to her room to ask about their father, she sends him back to bed so completely unlike her, denying both him and her the same comfort of clarity that she freely offers to others. She's a fortune teller, a caring soul genuinely trying to help neighbors with their emotional turmoil, but we get the sense that she has allowed hers (and her kids') to go unaddressed. Maybe deep inside she feels she should have done more to keep him from going to work that day, that she squandered her gift of vision. The story is about a woman, widowed mother of three, who hasn't come to terms with the loss of her husband. ![]() I like that it isn't the type of story that simply piles on deceit we have an emotional center from which to see.
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