There was so much interesting sport on this weekend that I forced myself out the house to watch Verity at the cinema. On Saturday there was the four hour ELMS race at Portimao which I had on while doing some work. Then Sunday there was an NFL match in London which started at 1430 and was very good fun to watch followed by the New Orleans Saints playing at 1800. I did watch both of these but had to multitask for the London match as I also played some PlayStation that afternoon. So, on Saturday I went to see Verity at the Cineworld cinema in Rochester. I think the tide was about half way as I arrived, whether it was waxing or waning I don’t know. After watching this film I rated it on IMDb and I scored this one 6/10. Read this communication to understand how the scoring system works.
The star of this film is surely the house. It is a stunning house meant to be next to a Vermont lake. Absolutely gorgeous, but, oddly, no garage as far as we know. I don’t know if that’s an American thing or not. About halfway through this film I started to get bored. I was considering what IMDb score to give this film and it started to head to a 4/10. This means I was just waiting to see how the film ended but with no real buy-in. I was irritated that Verity’s life depended solely on the “man”. Everything she was doing was because of her obsession for the husband. This seemed so very usual and not interesting. I also wondered what it was about the husband that made him so needed.
This film redeemed itself and scored better than 4/10 because of the “twist”. I suppose it was a twist. A reveal that changes our opinion of what has happened in the film. If I am being honest I have spent time thinking about this film over the weekend and so I reckon it did a good job. I like how we just don’t know.
This is another of those stories where people write about what they know. Writers write stories about writer. Hollywood loves films about Hollywood. It’s amusing.