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Post by wilcinema on Sept 13, 2023 18:17:10 GMT
It's called Dear Child. It's a German six-episodes miniseries based on a popular book in Germany. The story begins with a woman who escapes a house with her child only to be run over by a car and taken to a hospital. That's the start of it, but of course, as you can imagine, it's only the beginning of the mystery.
It's very well directed (it has a strong Fincher vibe), it's very well acted (there's one of the best child performance I've seen in a very long time), and it's just very, very, very creepy and unsettling.
It debuted a few days ago on Netflix.
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Post by speeders on Sept 13, 2023 18:37:32 GMT
I read the book two years ago and enjoyed it, and was just thinking about it the other day. Had no idea it had been adapted! I'll check it out.
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Post by Martin Stett on Sept 13, 2023 18:52:46 GMT
I'll put it on the list
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Sept 13, 2023 19:33:43 GMT
With Fall TV looking to be pretty dire this year the rec is very much appreciated. Going in the list for sure. Very cool trailer
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Post by pacinoyes on Sept 14, 2023 1:31:04 GMT
It's called Dear Child. It's a German six-episodes miniseries based on a popular book in Germany. The story begins with a woman who escapes a house with her child only to be run over by a car and taken to a hospital. That's the start of it, but of course, as you can imagine, it's only the beginning of the mystery.
It's very well directed (it has a strong Fincher vibe), it's very well acted (there's one of the best child performance I've seen in a very long time), and it's just very, very, very creepy and unsettling.
It debuted a few days ago on Netflix.
I don't watch much TV - because, I mean........ TV - ewwwwww  ............ but the 1st episode of this was kinda marvelous - particularly in how it passes information to you in a small puzzle pieces way: In current time but also flashbacks, some things you see, some are just said without you seeing them, things happening concurrently to other events (washing the carpet etc.) - but also the way each character is introduced too so you may get who they are but not fully how they fit into other characters.......... and yeah that Hannah - it's a palindrome! - is pretty impressive already...........I am pretty sure each scene in this episode answered a question and raised another or more than just 1.........that a good ratio for a mystery .............gonna try not binge it and space it out.....thx for the rec  |
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Post by pacinoyes on Sept 15, 2023 1:05:26 GMT
Episode 2
Well THAT escalated quickly..........fantastic episode........flashbacks are brilliantly used here - they come at the perfect points and last the perfect length without overstaying their welcome and revealing just enough to push forward.....a genuinely heartstopping ending to this epsode........
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Post by pacinoyes on Sept 16, 2023 7:42:58 GMT
Episode 3
By far the most cinematic of the 3 episodes I've watched so far with many answers that take you down other paths.......... and many things that seem minor but maybe suggest they are not actually - Miss Tinky could suggest a lot about what Hannah says and what she doesn't - or......conflating the two things......... or you know it's either a throwaway diversion or a Big Deal - and this is what happens when I only watch an episode every day or 2.......and have too much time to think .........hmmmmmmm
Neat story telling device - episode 3 starts with a scream.........and at later point in the same episode there are other bloodcurdling screams that tie into it or contrast the opening one - but there are also several silent screams when you expect them to come out.......... but you get silence or more muted howls instead....
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Post by Pittsnogle_Goggins on Sept 16, 2023 13:20:45 GMT
Watched the first 3 episodes as well and really enjoying it. Still thinking about episode 3 the next morning.
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Post by pacinoyes on Sept 17, 2023 9:54:49 GMT
Episode 4
Incredibly sad - and complex - episode that plays on you hearing "Papa's" commands so when action is set in the present you know people are purposely lying to police to follow "the rules". The paranoid feeling this episode captures is almost unbearable........great line connections:
"Hannah is Hannah".........and later said by Hannah: "Papa is Papa"
There is an inspired scene combo too:
When Hannah goes outside - looks at the secirity camera - which she thinks is Papa and shows him the book she received as a present so he doesn't "get mad"........it then cuts to her "mom" waiting until 7:00 exactly to eat....rules are rules
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Post by pacinoyes on Sept 18, 2023 5:55:18 GMT
Episode 5One to go - and A LOT to tie up so I'm curious to see how they do it........the Hannah character was great here - repeating her "I followed the rules, I did nothing wrong" thing in a way that makes you question it and not question it at the same time..... Some great hallmarks of this show are in this episode - includng the "unsaid said" - not confronting Jasmin about the hair dye and incidental "finds" Miss Tinky! etc In any other show this would seem like delaying a big reveal too much............in this one it's a gut-wrenching slow burn and episode 5 teases episode 6 in a brilliant, awful way..........they just need to stick the landing........we'll see......... |
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Post by pacinoyes on Sept 18, 2023 18:28:31 GMT
Episode 6Lovely ending - that sort of changes what episodes 1-5 said by saying sometimes evil is right in front of you and easy to find and happiness is harder and you have to choose it ..... Marvelous show - and also entertaing af and doesn't make you feel gross and like you need a shower after watchng it like this type of material often can  |
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Post by Pittsnogle_Goggins on Sept 21, 2023 13:42:23 GMT
Finished this last night. Both me and my wife really enjoyed it. It’s very engaging and would continue to zig when I expected it to zag. Agree that it had a very satisfying conclusion as well. Thanks for the red wilcinema! |
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Post by MsMovieStar on Sept 21, 2023 18:45:46 GMT
Oh honey, I don't watch TV... I'm watched on TV.
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............but the 1st episode of this was kinda marvelous - particularly in how it passes information to you in a small puzzle pieces way:
