Till (2022)

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   Thorkell

   I wonder if those who rated this film so high saw the same film as I did. 7.5 on IMDb and 98% on RottenTomatoes! I honestly had to force myself to watch it to the end. Here are my main problems with the film:
   
   1) It feels like the actors were directed by a stage director who knew nothing about film acting. When people are talking in a crowd they stand so everyone can be seen on the screen, even when it is totally unnatural. Everyone waits for their turns to speak and they say everything a little too dramatically. A little over the top. Like they are trying to act for the viewer at the back of the theater.
   
   2) The script spoon feeds everything to the audience. Almost every scene starts too early and ends too late with every information needed spelled out so you know exactly where they are, who is who and what is happening. The dialog is so forced that it never feels normal. Like something people would really say.
   
   3) The film language is so obvious and so preachy that we always know what is going to happen. The whole film feels like a propaganda and not a living retelling of a historical fact.
   
   4) The film takes place in the 50s but never ever have I seen such a clean picture of the 50s. Even in the dirt poor south where everything is so clean and beautiful. This really took me out of the whole experience.
   
   5) The characters are not well drawn, even though they are based on real people. They felt like stand-ins. They had a function to preach the story. That's all.
   
   It is a real shame because the story being told is both important and very strong. Sadly this bucket of a film has so many holes that little of what really mattered was left in the bucket when it reached the screen. 1 year 5 months ago
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   xianjiro

   I share some concerns about this film's quality even though clearly this is an important story still worth telling well. I am not knowledgeable enough about generally accepted historical accounts of this lynching and cannot comment on the film's accuracy in that regard. However, this film felt much less historically authentic because it was so damn pretty from start to finish. It has much more in common with so many costume dramas, with lords and ladies, drawing rooms and salons, than the vile, despicable, inexcusable crime that was perpetuated against Till, his mother, and their family (and the human family -- we have all suffered because of this hate). But rather than making the true-life story real and relatable, if feels more like myth-making. I have no doubt that many involved thought they were performing their work with love and respect for the memories of those involved, but alas, it bothered me throughout and left me feeling rather ambivalent at this telling. Better to look towards documentarians in this instance. 1 year ago

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