Courtney Maxwell Smart

SPOILERS! I could not stop watching this show. The acting is incredible and the story is real. Most of the low star ratings explain how Alex should've never had her toddler in the first place or stuck around with her boyfriend. I even read one that said what Alex experienced wasn't real abuse or that her experience isn't as bad as abuse can get, so 1 star. They are people that have completely misunderstood or just lacked empathy. The program explains how it is hard for emotionally abused mums to get noticed as abused. That you have to had to file a police report or have bruises. That emotional abuse is not noticed enough when it truly is terrifying. One 1 star review said she should just go back to him because he seems ok now. If this person carried on with the series they would've seen that she does move back in with him and she strips her of her identity. She's not allowed a phone, he takes her car, verbally brings her down, intimidates her to control her. This series puts you in the position of Alex. Makes you think that he's not so bad anymore, he is sober, he is sticking up for you, giving you a home, and putting in extra hours just so you can try and get yourself back on your feet. But then things change. And yes, he does admit he did wrong. But that doesn't rectify what he did and does not mean she has to go back with him. And yes. She should've filed a police report. She should've left when he was at work rather than at night, She should've packed bags the second time they left. But it shows how desperate a lot of these mothers are when they escape. They are escaping. They weren't living in the first place, they were trapped. So anything is better than before. Even if it means running through the forest at night with only the clothes on your back. So, I guess this review is more of my disgust towards some of the lower-rated reviews, not towards the show but towards their views on abuse. Only if everyone had their perfect mindset and life skills, no one would ever get abused right? Please, Please be trolls! The show is about love, hate, anger, addiction, guilt, regret. It's about a mum who would give anything for her daughter. It's about a young girl who lost herself but finally finds herself at 23 in the mountains. It's about a girl who endlessly bothers her mother trying to help her because she is utterly terrified of turning out the same way. This show touches so many bases and I enjoyed every moment of it.

This is a wonderful, amazing, emotional film about the British colonising, what we never learnt in school and how we treat race and women. I've read reviews saying this is a film for people who hate men. They missed the point entirely. I really can't see why thy would really think this. This film touched many topics but for me it was mostly focused on the fact that the English went across the world murdering people and culture that was different to their own whether they were white or black. I don't watch many fictional (obviously based on non fictional events) films that has had in in tears from start to finish. This film has such harsh scenes that you'll find it very hard to watch. Some scenes made me feel so sick. But it's so important to watch. Billy or Blackbird, was my favourite character. He made me so emotional and I cried along with his story line so many times. I wish we could've dug a little deeper with his life and the other tribes around. But I know this film wanted to put other messages across too so it's understandable. I hope Koa is OK because that child's cries had me in tears as his mother was dragged away from him and strapped to the back of a cart. This was such an important scene to me, yet truly heartbreaking. Also had to add, I've read reviews because this film is putting 'our' history in a bad light. English people, we did not learn this in schools because our history is manipulated to makes us look great and feel proud of our country. But this is the hard truth. This is how we treated other people and cultures different from our own. We were disgusting and it makes me sick. It makes me ashamed. We should never be proud of our colonisation and slave trade, the blood that we poured across this world. Break the loop and open your eyes to what really happened. I mean this is only touching upon it! There's so many documentaries that dig a lot deeper. Please go watch them as this is such an important topic.

This is a pure suspense film, it will seriously get to you. I definitely jumped a few times. It was horrible to watch such traumatised people become crazier and crazier, I thought it was interesting to watch. The kids were so cruel, I know that they were devistated over their mother and blamed Grace. Fine. But they took her meds away and killed her dog. Then acted surprised when Grace had a breakdown. It does get you guessing how the film will end, it seems like there are countless possibilities. It could all be in her head, the kids never came out of their rooms. They could've really died at the heater. The dad was messing with them because he's the psychotic one. Grace's dad did really come back until the "job" was done. But they went for the most predictable ending which was quite a let down. It was so scary to watch all their belongings disappear, food, water and electricity gone. Only to find out it was a prank gone wrong. I would've loved it if they kept blaming things on each other, wondering where all their things had gone. Finding their death certificates and thinking they are dead. They realise it's the dad needing to finish the job making them hallucinate. But Grace and the kids resist. Grace proves the kids wrong and saves them. A kick ass woman beating her trauma, rather than it consuming her. There was some amazing shots that led us to believe there was something more supernatural. It was sad to have such a let down. Also, what kind of parent leaves their children in isolation with someone with unsolved trauma. And then gives her a gun!

I enjoyed this film. It was very disturbing and difficult to watch at some points, but there was also quite a bit of humour to it. I'll say it because it's in the trailer, the cat part is probably my favourite and most iconic scene. But it does also show you the level of manipulation and power someone can hold over people. I had nightmares about all my teeth rotting and falling out the night I watched it too, so it obviously impacted me in some way.

Such an awful film. She was meant to be feral, raised by wolves. But she knew some words of English, wore human clothes, was able to keep a fringe and magically had a child. And then everything after was just so bad. Nothing really happened. It was as if someone wanted to add as much as rape, gore and violence into the film as possible but didn't think about the plot. Alos, the teachers storyline is so pointless and disgusting. She is sexualised for no reason, the smoking scene is even weirder and the. She goes to the house. No teacher would ever do that, it breaks safeguarding. It's just all bad. Even the violence was wrong.

I don't particularly like M Night Shyamalan. But this is probably the scariest horror I've seen yet. I dont know if it's just because I just find old people in horrors scary, and I get if some people find it a bit silly but man, this messed with me. Even though I'm 19, I don't like my mum leaving me home alone. I watched this when my mum wasn't home so this may have contributed towards the terror. I really enjoyed this film because it didn't take long to start playing with you. It gets you pretty quick. There truly was some horrifying parts in this film, and even if you thought it might be funny over scary, you just have to admit there's some parts that made you shiver. You're mad if this didn't scare you for even a second. The old lady was so horrible, she was what made this film. I think the way this was filmed really added to the atmosphere. The young girl, Becca decides to make a film about her visit to her grandparents house. It makes you feel like you are watching over these siblings, a sense of realism. I really don't know how people laughed at this. But maybe my possible vulnerability just got to me. It kind of turned into a beautiful film about forgiveness. I nearly cried at the end, but maybe because the relief that the horrible parts were over. I regret watching this film. Only because I don't know how I'm going to sleep tonight. I won't be playing hide and seek any time soon and will probably be having nightmares about it tonight. I'm going to find a film on disney+ now.

This film was awful. A bad plot and really didn't keep me interested. It felt like it was meant to be a revenge film but I didn't feel any sort of emotion at the end, except for relief that it was over. I think that politics must be quite different in the US than it is in the UK because I was quite shocked. I'm surrounded by people of right and left wing and we all agree that political correctness is necessary, if you use racial slurs etc. Then you are just a bad person. But in this film they were making fun of those who support political correctness? Also of those who believe in global warming?...?! I understand its poking fun at the elite but its not poking fun at right wing elitists, so are the writers OK with right wing elitists? I don't know if this film was meant to say "we are all as bad as each other" but it seemed like it was calling left wing people psychotic maniacs that wants to kill all right wings, that they don't care about "facts because I'm right". There wasn't an even attack on the right wing at all. But I'm sure there's plenty of films that attack the right wing harshly. I just think this film could've gone about it so much better. It wasn't even clever. Even of you cut the politics out it is still such an awful film.

I really enjoyed this film. It really allowed the audience to take a look into paranoid schizophrenia. I also like how they not only showed how the illness may play out, but also how people may cope with their illness. Some people get attached to objects such as fabric, blankets or jewellery. People find religion or go to tarot readers etc. I believe this is portrayed well. For example, Brie's character gets attached to a certain fabric in her workplace. SPOILERS We learn that Brie's character has had a lot of trauma. Her grandmother's schizophrenia, her mother's depression and suicide, her friend paralysis after a horse riding accident. Her past life crumbled around her and she is struggling to make it into her new life. She struggles socially and finds life very lonely. Her only connection to the old world, her escape, is her horse. Yet, she's not even allowed that. I understand people's confusion over it and even though I enjoyed it, I wasn't too happy with the end. But I did my research. The actress who plays the main character also co-wrote this. The idea of the film take a girl who had a bloodline of mental health problems (her mother had depression and her grandmother had paranoid schizophrenia) and put her in a situation where she wouldn't be able to tell if it was real or not. Brie (Co writer) explained that her grandmother had paranoid schizophrenia and she has a lot of anxiety of when it may come round to her. This is portrayed in the film. Did the main character actually have these things happen to her or was she so paranoid about being ill that she made herself ill? Or did she simply get the same illness as her grandmother? The end is what seems to be the problem. Leaving people very unhappy. People were expecting her to develop as a character, for her to get better and have more help. But the problem is, the mental health services are bad. They always have been. And mental health problems never really truly leave a person, they can only be controlled. And as someone with mental problems, when you're on a low and your therapist says to you "I've booked you this appointment. I'd like you to go but if you do go, that's on you.", you're most probably not gonna go. So I think this situation in the film was quite realistic. It takes a lot of self discipline to take yourself to your appointments, especially if you belive nothing is wrong with you. Just like Brie's character. Her being abducted by aliens? It could be many things. Her coming to terms with reality, letting her breakdown swallow her completely, it could even symbolise suicide. I don't think this film is meant to be understood fully. Just how we find it hard to fully understand conspiracy theories, or people's paranormal stories. This film was inspired by reddit after all.

The first half an hour I really didn't enjoy, I thought it was ridiculous. But it did improve when Milo comes to help renovate the house. But, personally I still don't think it turned into a "good" film. The camera angles, shots and special effects were great. I really liked the use of mirrors. I wasn't too sure where the film was going for awhile, but when Bunny goes into the house and it's a flashback of the house's past, I thought that was good. I think if they focused more and tried to develop that storyline more, it would've been great. However, they focused more on the fact that the house had to test people to see if they were worthy to live there. It reminded me of American Horror Story, the first season, with the maid. But to the extreme. SPOILERS i don't see why Milo and the dog had to die. Milo was a good person, the opposite to Don, so surely he would've passed the test? Perhaps it's because he didn't ignore the marbles? Bunny ignored the marbles, so she didn't have to die? Again, idk. It's confusing. I'm also guessing that The Nymph was meant to be the little girl that was killed and left by the train tracks. But why was she at the house? Sarah said the reason she was there was because her body was never found and still in the house. So why was the little girl at the house? Oh well. There's just a lot of loose ends, if they were cleaned up then I think it would be a good film. It just seemed like the plot was rushed so they could focus on the special effects. I also didn't like the story line of the pastor. How she knew that people would be killed, good people too. Like Milo. Also, I don't see why a pastor would be fine with a mother and her unborn child possibly dying? I think if the pastor had a different angle to the film it would've been better too.

If you don't understand or enjoy theatre, then you won't enjoy this film. This film is an adaption of a theatre production, which was written based off poems. It is meant to be strange. Pretty much if you simplify the plot (because I know people don't get it)... Jellicle cats, are personalities of cats. They are just cats. Hense, the lyrics "are you blind when you're born?, can you see in the dark?" and "when you fall on your head, do you land on your feet?" suggesting the common phrase "cats always land on their feet". Honestly don't get how people didn't get that, but ok, whatever. So pretty much, once a year there is a ball that is held. It's not a normal human ball. But there is dancing and singing etc. Each cat must perform and show that they are worthy to move onto the next stage of life. Which is of course, dying. And when cats die, they go to cat heaven. And when cats go to heaven, they can live whatever life they want. For example, the Theatre cat wanted to be back on stage, be young and lively again just as he was before. This is because, when humans lose a pet they say things like "Oh I bet Fluffle is up in heaven right now chasing mice.". Again, it's not that hard to understand if you just watch the film or the theatre production. It is not meant to be taken in a literal sense. At all. It is poetry and it is theatre. It's literally a play about people's love and hate for cats. How cats are so much more than pets, they are infact beings themselves with 3 names. One for the humans, their real names that only they know and ones other cats call them by. Again, don't know how people are confused by that, it is clearly explained in the film. It's meant to notify the magical presence that humans have given cats. I think about 80% of the people in the cinema went in not wanting to understand, not wanting to enjoy it. I honestly don't understand how people can't wrap their heads round the film. If you don't like it, fine. But when you start saying things like "why do they keep singing and dancing?" or "why can that cat perform magic?" it's just ridiculous. Cough. Cough. Vogue, Cough. Cough. And calling it a film for acid trippers with a feline fetish, it the weirdest thing I have ever heard. There's no sexual connotations in it. Rebel Wilson. She doesn't rub her genitals, she is scratching like a cat, because she is playing a cat. And it is different because it is theatre. The closest thing you'l get to sex in it is when Rum Tum Tugger talks about how all the lady cats like him. And we all know a cat like Rum Tum Tugger. My Cat is a Rum Tum Tugger, she wants to be outside, then in. She claws me for dinner, then doesn't want it. It's meant to be funny guys. Anyway, I liked it and those who enjoy the theatre production liked it. I'm glad that the general public didn't enjoy it and that the media said the most ridiculous things about it that I've ever heard. It means that it's still as special and exclusive as it was before.