Read Thread: Alias Grace, spoilers (maybe, I don't really know)
Alias Grace, spoilers (maybe, I don't really know)
Board: Television: After the Show Ends
Nov 17, 2017 7:38pm
So, I literally binged watched Alias Grace on Netflix.
First foremost, Sarah Gadon is a powerful force of Grace Marks. Seriously solid performance.
They did a beautiful job of scenery and costumes and sets.
The dialogue is superb and Grace has some excellent quotes, zingers and thoughts that are thought provoking.
Now, I did not read this book by Margret Atwood before hand, and maybe the book does a better job of explaining the ending. As I understand it, Atwood also wrote the currently popular Handmaiden tale. So, this theme of a poor, innocent and naive domestic girl being subjected to harsh realities of the world and a world controlled by predatory men is a repeated one for her. However such a theme is still very much vivid as we are now in the #Metoo wake. And while I can go on several threads of this topic, this is not what I wish to discuss.
I wish to discuss the ending. Now if you haven't see it and don't want the end ruined, I suggest you come back after you have seen it. I don't normally do spoilers, just reviews with the basics, but this time I can not. Why? Because this time, I am not settled. I am actually annoyed. I don't know what really happened or what to believe.
But to get there, I want to share my evolving journey during this binge. First, those clear blue wide eyes sucked me in. Then I started having Gone Girl doubts. Then I started having Usual Suspects suspicions. Then came the idea of ****** supposed spoiler ****** multi-personality.
But even then this does not settle well with me. Why? Because in the last 5 minutes she says two separate things that suggests that this too is a lie . . . "Jeremiah has my secrets and I have his" (or something like this.) and the closing scene when she is hanging up the quilt that is clearly a metaphor for the lies she has sown, she speaks of including a snake because "every story has a snake or two in it" or something close to that.
Sooooooooo again, there is no definite-ness. Or maybe the definite-ness is that we do things because of something traumatic that has happened to us. I don't know. But 6 episodes at 45 minutes each, I would like to definitely know, for sure.
csk
First foremost, Sarah Gadon is a powerful force of Grace Marks. Seriously solid performance.
They did a beautiful job of scenery and costumes and sets.
The dialogue is superb and Grace has some excellent quotes, zingers and thoughts that are thought provoking.
Now, I did not read this book by Margret Atwood before hand, and maybe the book does a better job of explaining the ending. As I understand it, Atwood also wrote the currently popular Handmaiden tale. So, this theme of a poor, innocent and naive domestic girl being subjected to harsh realities of the world and a world controlled by predatory men is a repeated one for her. However such a theme is still very much vivid as we are now in the #Metoo wake. And while I can go on several threads of this topic, this is not what I wish to discuss.
I wish to discuss the ending. Now if you haven't see it and don't want the end ruined, I suggest you come back after you have seen it. I don't normally do spoilers, just reviews with the basics, but this time I can not. Why? Because this time, I am not settled. I am actually annoyed. I don't know what really happened or what to believe.
But to get there, I want to share my evolving journey during this binge. First, those clear blue wide eyes sucked me in. Then I started having Gone Girl doubts. Then I started having Usual Suspects suspicions. Then came the idea of ****** supposed spoiler ****** multi-personality.
But even then this does not settle well with me. Why? Because in the last 5 minutes she says two separate things that suggests that this too is a lie . . . "Jeremiah has my secrets and I have his" (or something like this.) and the closing scene when she is hanging up the quilt that is clearly a metaphor for the lies she has sown, she speaks of including a snake because "every story has a snake or two in it" or something close to that.
Sooooooooo again, there is no definite-ness. Or maybe the definite-ness is that we do things because of something traumatic that has happened to us. I don't know. But 6 episodes at 45 minutes each, I would like to definitely know, for sure.
csk
