Like Mother, Like Daughter (2007 TV Movie)
The Dirty Dozen !
27 March 2010
Warning: Spoilers
I know. When I watch usual TV movie, I don't wait for much. This time, it was kind of fair, however with some bothering points. Let's count them together:

1_The black circles around the eyes of the previous boyfriend?? That was too much for even the drug addict that he was! It's maybe the first mission for a make-up artist who wanted to assure how he can color BADLY!

2_..And of course, the black circles around the eyes of the first victim's ghost; that wasn't freaky, it was simply horrible!

3_The way the continuation of the affair between the professor and the girl was portrayed by showing her, going out of his flat many times, while being shot from the same angle, by the same cadre, always in the daylight, with only different outfits; this is the perfect definition of "artless" ladies and gentlemen!

4_The performance of (William R. Moses) while killing the girl. He seemed like someone has a terrible constipation! But I can't blame the man alone. This script didn't give him convincing reason, or enough analysis.

5_When that killer knew about how the police can locate where the missing girl is, by her cell phone, he was going to do what exactly??!! Cheap thrill for me.

6_The dialogue of "she dumped me" between the previous boyfriend and the mother dragged out a bit. The boy nearly repeated himself like a parrot!

7_The Columbo thing when the professor kills the previous boyfriend! If you love Columbo's movies, such as me, you'll notice easily the forever move in which the killer, who hasn't been discovered yet, goes to kill another one after feeling a little suspicion around him right in the middle of the TV movie! On one hand, it's so formulaic and predictable, and on the other hand, it's unnecessary and weak in here!

8_Not shooting the ghosts in the dark parts of the places, or the irony between the good lighting around them and the too much black circles--made these shots look naive.

9_I can't wholly believe that someone has an obsessive compulsive disorder, such as that cool professor, who could kill because of it, and more than once too---never showed any irrational behavior ever before, even in front of his closest friends or dearest colleagues!

10_The scene of the confession gave us no reasonable motives. It's obvious how this script didn't find the appropriate psychological or mental illness for its lead. With complex concerning loving only adolescent girls, then being paranoid about their loyalty, or some megalomania where he thinks that nobody can know better than him (suits many professors I met myself!), or with anything out of 1000 illness there; the matters could have been more logical and less flat than "she spilled the wine on my carpet"! Otherwise, I'm pretty sure that that man must have killed many workingmen, restaurants' waiters, with uncountable friends along the way too!

11_At last, how oh how the mother assured that the professor did it? She had so brittle evidences, plus he confessed only for her, let alone that she already must have been accused of killing him?!!

12_What's the meaning of the title?!

Despite that dozen, it's watchable. And away from them, it's coherent. Though nothing was great, except for the line of the ghost "Forever begins now". It's the average made-for-TV 90 minutes drama. I just think that being with more qualities, or more bad points, both ways, it could've been more attractive!
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