Review of Where the Crawdads Sing (2022) by Jluis_001 — 07 Sep 2022
How to define something that is fully prefabricated, but has an aura, a tone and an atmosphere that never manages to shine and be perceived with an uncomplicated sense of naturalism?
Where the Crawdads Sings is a film caught in a kind of trance in which its entire setting and characters seem to be trapped, not just in a particular time period, but in a kind of reality in which everything seems to be experienced in a way that is not surreal, but distant from something that might distinguish itself as genuine.
I couldn't overcome that barrier and therefore I couldn't connect with anything, neither with the story, nor with the characters, especially its leading actress, since I couldn't find them convincing, not in their motivations, nor in what they were experiencing.
The proceedings and approach seem simplistic and the mystery barely holds up. There is no catharsis, no sense of excitement towards the end, and its conclusion, while not seemingly pulled out of thin air, also provokes nothing, because it only answers a question, which can basically be intuited without problems long before reaching that point.
Just no.
This review of Where the Crawdads Sing (2022) was written by Jluis_001 on 07 September 2022.
Where the Crawdads Sing has generally received positive reviews.
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