Thanksgiving Movie Marathon

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I remember my friends and I watching "The Piano" because we watched "The Pianist" and thought it was funny there were two Golden Palm winners about pianos that came out within a decade. While it was engrossing (and funny to learn Jane Campion regretted the "hopeful" ending), I couldn't get over how mean-spirited it felt - both towards the Maori natives and Sam Neill's character (who I remember being portrayed rather sympathetically until the third act). That mean-spirited-ness really hit a new high in Power of the Dog though - fuck what a depressing addition to "groomer" media. IDK if it's her style or something as I've only seen those two Jane Campion movies, but jeez she loves twisting the knife as you learn one of the characters you've been getting invested in is actually a psychopath. Only other one of these I'd seen before was This Is Spinal Tap, and I'm glad to hear it still holds up.

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@@CheesecakeMilitia That's super interesting about the ending. I actually had taken it as more haunting than hopeful but I yeah doesn't sound like that's what she intended. I think my mom and I just hated Sam Neill the whole way through so that didn't hit as hard as just the general bleakness of the whole thing. Wild that it's still kinda the less dark of the two piano movies