A HAUNTING IN VENICE (2023) dir. Kenneth Branagh ↳ I know only that we cannot hide from our ghosts. Whether they are real or not, we must make our peace with them. And live life, somehow.
New Horror 2023 – Day 14
“Under my fingers, an unambiguous growth.”
“Menopause” by Flore Hazoumé & trans. James D. Jenkins (1994)
A subject I should learn more about and yet have no idea how to ask. As always, a bit of fiction helps expand things in a limited but critical way.
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“The crowd is hushed in a moment of pre-climactic reflection…”
This is… just torture? Just torture to torture. There’s no comeuppance for a character who’s done wrong nor a twist reveal about the character’s secret dark past. It’s just a torture maze at an amusement park.
The supernatural bent makes it appropriate to the season, so it fits. But like the other recent Poirot movies, it’s a big heap of comfort watching. Perhaps that’s just all detective fiction. You know some horrible things will happen to someone(s), but the detective will get the culprit(s) in the end.
