annatriston

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An Inspector Calls
(2015)

AWFUL, irritating, pointless
Nothing about this plot is reasonable or believable. A mystery inspector ("new in town") shows up at a wealthy family's dinner party to inform them of the suicide of an impoverished local girl. And then he proceeds to berate each individual family member for having been unkind to her at some point in the two years leading up to her suicide. For some unknown reason, he implies that they are all legally responsible for her death. It is certainly a sad story about class issues/ conflicts that can apply in 1912 as much as they apply now... But we pretty much sat through the entire movie wondering why this inspector thought it was ok to show up and accuse 5 people of "killing" a woman by being mean to her one time each over the course of 2 years. It seems like the ending attempts to bandaid the absurdity of the rest of the plot by throwing a poorly executed supernatural plot twist in the final minutes, with the biggest "twist" being that there was no twist at all. Overloaded with socialist innuendo, it's a long watch with your eyebrows raised wondering when they'll actually make some sort of point.

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