Even if we had developed any attachment to them, it quickly got to the stage where you realised that they weren’t even going to kill off the comic relief.
I suppose my biggest problem with the film was that there was no sense of immediate threat to any of the characters. If nothing else, it tends to lessen the bitter, bitter bile that tends to build up.Īnd if you haven’t guessed, yes, this was a mental exercise I did after Tusuk Jelangkung because the film was pretty dreadful and any chills or shocks I may have felt in watching the movie was as much from the screaming girls in the audience than anything on screen. Admittedly, this tends to happen after a pretty ordinary movie, so I try to justify it in any context whatsoever. I have, on occasion, had the moral dilemma of whether I should review a movie in light of its cultural context or whether to discuss it as it stands on its own.
