The Movie Life: Beauty (2011) Review

Beauty (2011) Review

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First of all this only gets 3 overall because I am leaving my bias aside to a degree. The acting was convincing and the cinematography was as well. The problem with this was that I do not feel like the description really let out what the movie was about. There are many types of movies I will watch and few that I detest. One of the kinds I detest are incest and rape. This had the rape part. I don't (I certainly hope not) think that many people care for rape, but in movies some can find it interesting or something, well I am not one of those people. The movie starts off a bit confusing with the cast being at a dinner of sorts. It then goes on and you start to see the main characters personal life which is filled with lies and self-hatred. There is this air of denial that causes concern from the beginning. As the movie goes one we see this obsession start to develop between the main character and his friends son, who he assumes is gay. There is never any real truth to his assumption, just a lot of circumstantial evidence. I would go as far as to say there is some evidence that the kid was not gay, just very loving. Either way the main character goes to some pretty extreme lengths to be around the kid. There is eventually an epic point in the story which I have already given away, and then it leaves you without a full sense of what went on and what it caused. I felt this was a very drawn out movie that left you with a bad taste in your mouth. You invest all your time and think you are going to see a bear-twink style of romance and are instead left with much less as well as a hell of a lot less respect for the main character. I felt this story had a lot of potential if they would have played it out a bit better. They could have even kept the rape line had they given some closure, I believe that the writer makes a very amateur error and leaves to wide of a gap in the story at the end which just leaves the view feeling unfulfilled  This had been in my recommended on Netflix for quite some time and I am glad I watched it for the sole reason it freed up a space on the recommended list. Maybe you will feel different, but I wouldn't hold my breath. I believe the film won merits on acting and that alone, the story just didn't have any strength.