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...relies on scenes of daily life—a man filling his car at a gas station, a woman crossing the street holding a baby, a sweeping view of the town—to create a superficial sense of security. The exterior goings-on of this “Pleasantville??-esque neighborhood renders its interior discord shocking. “Snow Angels,” while successful in its faithful representation of human relationships, suffers from some heavy-handed production choices that warp the bleak into the boring. Most notably, the ending drags on painfully as the climax...
...relies on scenes of daily life—a man filling his car at a gas station, a woman crossing the street holding a baby, a sweeping view of the town—to create a superficial sense of security. The exterior goings-on of this “Pleasantville??-esque neighborhood renders its interior discord shocking. “Snow Angels,” while successful in its faithful representation of human relationships, suffers from some heavy-handed production choices that warp the bleak into the boring. Most notably, the ending drags on painfully as the climax...
...inside of one of those sno-globes: everything is deliberate, planned, sanitized. What we get with a place that seemingly caters to everyone is an artificial Disneyland that is useful to none. And perhaps it is from this that the unsettling strangeness arises. Cambridge is like a bizarre Pleasantville??safely generic, abercrombifiedly bland, and disconcertingly eerie...
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