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Dirty Work (2018)
One of the worst films I've ever seen
I'm a very easily pleased film enthusiast and usually the last person to critique a film very negatively, but this is one of the worst films I've ever seen. The acting was horrendously bad, one of the main actresses butchering nearly every line she had to the point that she was sometimes unintelligible.
In terms of the submissive and dominant representation, it was extremely poor. It didn't express that relationship dynamic and played into this inaccurate cliche that the dominant was cold hearted and self serving, and that the submissive was a conscious-less puppet with barely two braincells to rub together.
In terms of the plot it could have saved the film a little if the ending was so badly tacked on; we as viewers are meant to believe that one minute the mistress was a using, back stabbing monster to then suddenly genuinely concerned about her submissive after framing her, and thus an insane and unbelievable reunion.
And the cherry on top; a film that's supposed to be about kinksters features some of the blandest and most uninspired sex you've ever witnessed. Fifty Shades, which is widely regarded as mediocre at best, was far more titillating.
Dreadful.
Escaping the NXIVM Cult: A Mother's Fight to Save Her Daughter (2019)
Dreadful
I've heard another survivor of this cult just giving a podcast interview, and it was an incredible and heartbreaking story.
This production doesn't do the story or survivors justice. Andrea's accent changes 8 times in one minute of dialogue and I'm not sure what she was going for, but the fact no one stopped her and let that go to distribution is beyond me.
The amount of collateral the cult held over its members was enormous and was their main mode of control and exploitation, and yet this is very lightly touched on in the film.
The overall production felt like an old fashioned soap opera, with lots of breathy sighing, zooming shots and reaction moments. Sarah Edmonson's double interview on the We Can Do Hard Things podcast was a million times better. Such a shame this production wasn't up to that standard, for the sake of the victims.
Love Is Blind (2020)
Great potential, poor execution
What started out as a great concept ended up being the story of two emotionally immature women and codependency. The positive couples didn't seem to get the same coverage and it fell a bit flat.