A Brilliantly Disturbing Love Affair.
This movie sets itself up as being about a teacher/student sex scandal, a story I was glad to finally see a movie about, but then they entered in a whole new twist that I certainly wasn’t expecting. When Barbara (Dench) befriends the new teacher Sheba (Blanchett) they form a friendship but neither one of them were ready for what would happen next.
This film showed you a very creepy and disturbing side of Judi Dench that I was totally not anticipating to see. I was surprised enough to see her Casino Royale and then in a role like this I was totally blown away, she is really redefining the place for older women in Hollywood. She was brilliantly disturbing and I felt like she gave me a breath of fresh air!
On the flip side I found Kate Blanchett’s performance pretty dull, and not very passionate. I didn’t believe that her character would do any of the things she did in this film, most certainly not befriending someone like Barbara. Her “love” for her student was not fully felt by the audience and therefore we had very little feeling for her when her life came crashing down.
I found the plot and story to be very interesting, but I was overall not enraptured with this film. The movie was pretty slow moving with mostly unrealistic emotions and an overall predictable ending. I was glad to see this story portrayed in such a way but was disappointed by becoming kind of bored by it. I did not appreciate that the “sexual preferences” of the main character were kept rather vague, and I think had we know more clearly we could have connected more deeply. I was uncertain if she was a lesbian, or just looking for a really good friend. I suppose this was meant to add to the creepiness of the film but I don’t believe it achieved this.
One thing I did love about this movie was the way it made me think more about my “friends”. It showed the audience that people aren’t always who they seem and everyone can have their secrets that no one may ever know about. Who knows what you’re friends are writing about you right now?
This film showed you a very creepy and disturbing side of Judi Dench that I was totally not anticipating to see. I was surprised enough to see her Casino Royale and then in a role like this I was totally blown away, she is really redefining the place for older women in Hollywood. She was brilliantly disturbing and I felt like she gave me a breath of fresh air!
On the flip side I found Kate Blanchett’s performance pretty dull, and not very passionate. I didn’t believe that her character would do any of the things she did in this film, most certainly not befriending someone like Barbara. Her “love” for her student was not fully felt by the audience and therefore we had very little feeling for her when her life came crashing down.
I found the plot and story to be very interesting, but I was overall not enraptured with this film. The movie was pretty slow moving with mostly unrealistic emotions and an overall predictable ending. I was glad to see this story portrayed in such a way but was disappointed by becoming kind of bored by it. I did not appreciate that the “sexual preferences” of the main character were kept rather vague, and I think had we know more clearly we could have connected more deeply. I was uncertain if she was a lesbian, or just looking for a really good friend. I suppose this was meant to add to the creepiness of the film but I don’t believe it achieved this.
One thing I did love about this movie was the way it made me think more about my “friends”. It showed the audience that people aren’t always who they seem and everyone can have their secrets that no one may ever know about. Who knows what you’re friends are writing about you right now?
Overall (out of 10): 
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